Your Aces High call sign? It's significance?
AirScrew. I was a dental tech for 20 years in the USAF. One of my many additional duties was Flight Dentistry NCO, I worked with the Flight Medicine guys to schedule pilots dental exams and work around the flying and training schedules. Anyway we always referred to the pilots as Wingnuts and airscrews. Wingnuts was taken already. I also found out a few weeks ago looking at some plans for P47 or P51 that an airscrew is also part of a plane, located somewhere between the prop and the engine, no idea what it does.
Your Aces High squad?
RRR, Ramaging Rooks of Retribution
Your name?
Ken Treadwell
Your age?
41
Your Email?
ktreadwell@austin.rr.com
Where do you live?
Cedar Creek Tx, 15 SE of Austin, centrally located between Bastrop, Lockhart, San Marcos, and Austin. I can be in any of those towns with 20-30 minutes.
Where else have you lived?
My dad was AF also so as kid, March AFB Calf, Luke AFB Phoniex Az, Tinker AFB Ok, Fort Riley Kan, Houston Tx. Dad had one tour in Vietnam in 67 at DaNang.
My self was stationed at Lackland AFB TX, 79-84, Mountain Home AFB Tx 84-94, and Ramstein Ab Germany 94-98.
Thanks to my Uncle Sam I also had the benefit of extended visits to:
Washington DC, New Jersey, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Virgina, California, Oregon, Washinton State, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado, Arkansa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and England, France.
What do you do for a living?
Data Manager for startup in Austin
What is your marital/family status?
Wife #2, 4 kids, 18,13,11, and 4.
What schools have you attended?
AF tech schools, academies, Boise State and Park College, ID.
What degrees do you have?
a bunch of hours, no degrees
What are your hobbies?
There are things I did before I started playing AH, photography, collecting hotwheels, tinkering with computers, bowling, play with my kids, play softball, hunting/finshing, race cars in Gran Turismo, r/c cars, beer, go to local track for circle track racing/plan on building and racing car(not since Longhorn Speedway was closed however), help my brother-in-law with custom paint and body shop, drink more beer.
What other flight sims have you been involved in?
AH is my first online flight sim. And its a hoot. I've played almost every boxed sim released since F15 Strike Eagle on my Apple IIc in 87.
Do you have any other connection to aviation or WWII?
My grandfather was a tank mechanic in Europe served under Patton. Only things I remember him talking about was being at the Battle of the Bulge, trying to fix tanks while Patton kept pushing forward, and that Patton was a real SOB but the men respected him.
My Dad was in the AF post Korea to Mid 70's, and did weather for awhile, then worked air operations, and Forward Air Controller and finally a recuiter.
My wife was an avoinics tech on F-111's and EF-111's for 6 years at Lakenheath and Mountain Home.
Myself, I have taken pictures of planes, studied, read, built models, gone to hundreds of airshows and museums and dreamed of flying since I was 9. And someday before I die I will fly.
Other interesting things about yourself.
Although I was a dental tech for 20 years,because of all those "additional duties" I felt I was more than just a "dental assistant". I have a military license to drive everything from a M1A1 Jeep to field ambulances, 21/2 trucks, buses, forklifts upto 32k forklift used by the Marines. I got training from Special Forces 2 weeks each summer for 10 years (4 years by Marines, 3 years by Special Forces) on perimter defense, booby traps (finding them and setting them), orienteering (map & compass), marshalling helicopters, and radio communications. I did everything from cutting the grass, to systems admin for 80 users and their pc's.
[ 10-19-2001: Message edited by: AirScrew ]
[ 10-19-2001: Message edited by: AirScrew ]
