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Offline titanic3

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Why "Aces High"?
« on: September 02, 2008, 06:29:13 PM »
 So why pick the name "Aces High", was it a team decision, or did Hitech choose the name, and why?

Discuss away.

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Re: Why "Aces High"?
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2008, 06:29:59 PM »
Gerbils low was already taken? :D

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Re: Why "Aces High"?
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2008, 06:34:16 PM »
Well, my guess is that the name is Aces High because of the double entendre: "Ace" is both an aviation term and also (typically) the highest rank in a deck of cards.  I'll let the real geniuses explain further.

Or maybe they really love Iron Maiden. :lol
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Re: Why "Aces High"?
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2008, 06:35:56 PM »
It's also a kick-ass Iron Maiden song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GghCs_C65v0

Oops, missed that in your post Gava.

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Re: Why "Aces High"?
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2008, 08:50:56 PM »
And a movie.

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Re: Why "Aces High"?
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2008, 08:55:41 PM »
So why pick the name "Aces High", was it a team decision, or did Hitech choose the name, and why?

Discuss away.

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Re: Why "Aces High"?
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2008, 09:32:35 PM »
Well, my guess is that the name is Aces High because of the double entendre: "Ace" is both an aviation term and also (typically) the highest rank in a deck of cards.  I'll let the real geniuses explain further.

Or maybe they really love Iron Maiden. :lol

the Iron Maiden song was written in homage to the movie.
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Re: Why "Aces High"?
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2008, 09:55:53 PM »
HiTech demanded it, and no one dared to object.

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Re: Why "Aces High"?
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2008, 10:36:40 PM »
HiTech demanded it, and no one dared to object.

One did once, but even the mention of his name could result in a PNG.... :noid

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Re: Why "Aces High"?
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2008, 10:49:08 PM »
the Iron Maiden song was written in homage to the movie.

Interesting bit of Maiden related news for today:
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RAF pilots flown home courtesy of Iron Maiden
Published: September 2, 2008


From The Independent:

RAF pilots flown home courtesy of Iron Maiden

Bruce Dickinson, the singer with heavy metal outfit Iron Maiden, has in the past performed for British troops in Iraq. On Sunday, he did his bit for our boys in Afghanistan.

Dickinson, a qualified pilot for British airline Astraeus, was behind the controls of a Boeing 747 that the Ministry of Defence had chartered to transport a group of RAF pilots back home.

"A lot of them recognised him because they are Maiden fans, but he was there in his professional capacity as a pilot," says an RAF spokesman. "He gave out lots of signatures to the guys."


And from The Mirror:

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson takes the pilot's seat of a Boeing 757

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson, 50, shocked 106 members of the RAF returning from Afghanistan, when he took control of a Boeing 757 and flew them from Cyprus to RAF Wittering, Cambs, on Sunday.

But don't panic, he's a trained pilot.


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Re: Why "Aces High"?
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2008, 11:02:29 PM »
So why pick the name "Aces High", was it a team decision, or did Hitech choose the name, and why?

Discuss away.
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Re: Why "Aces High"?
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2008, 11:05:55 PM »
HiTech demanded it, and no one dared to object.

Well...that's pretty much what happened.  :D
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Re: Why "Aces High"?
« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2008, 01:07:04 AM »
And a movie.

it was on ITV last weekend when i was flicking through the channels caught it half way through a ww1 dogfight. 

The ending pretty much summed up what goes on in AH    :lol
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Re: Why "Aces High"?
« Reply #13 on: September 03, 2008, 07:40:05 AM »
HiTech decreed that Aces High was the name, and so it was.
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Re: Why "Aces High"?
« Reply #14 on: September 03, 2008, 08:49:11 AM »
Because "Aces Low" was already taken.  HT then decided to make a flight sim instead of tank sim.   :D

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