The most "thirsty" AH player

[Wiley]

2. Getting a gear shot off with 8 kills and going to land with all your glory, put down the gear to land like a boss and take pretty pictures of your plane after the epic run. Only to touch down, have your plane fall over, wing breaks off, you cant stop, and you roll to the grass with nothing you can do and end up with a ditch....


Sigh 

I had an equally good one last night.  Landed with one gear shot off, didn't notice it, about 3 feet from touchdown noticed only one gear light on, touched down, actually dragged the wingtip, firewalled the throttle and got the wing off the ground, lifted off again, raised the gear and went to set it down, but the wingtip drag had pulled me to the left and though I touched down the belly land on concrete, I skidded into the dirt for the ditch.   

Wiley.

[glzsqd]

First time I went to land the TA-152(with 8 kills)  That F***** plane and its F**** Baby Dear leg landing gear

[Gman]

The F4U4 in previous times, I don't know if it's the same, but when it first came out, I had to be the king of the ground loop on landing - I barely flew it, but I mean easily more often than not I would have a  kill streak on its way to the glory if the hero lights, and I would end up off the runway, broken gear, and I would just sit in disbelief and mentally swearing at my own stupidity. 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Well let's just say I max out at 4 kills usually when I'm drunk enough to not know if my undercarriage is up or down anymore 

[FBKampfer]

Warbeast/MANoWAR, unless we're talking current players only.

[Wiley]

The F4U4 in previous times, I don't know if it's the same, but when it first came out, I had to be the king of the ground loop on landing - I barely flew it, but I mean easily more often than not I would have a  kill streak on its way to the glory if the hero lights, and I would end up off the runway, broken gear, and I would just sit in disbelief and mentally swearing at my own stupidity.

  Broken gear on a corsair...  Unless they've changed it since the wayback, that's REALLY impressive.  About the only thing that seems to take a harder landing than a corsair in my experience is a P38.  You can do some truly bizarre things with that plane on landing and not break gear.

Back to the original question from the OP, I'd say most of the people who gun for top scores would have to be pretty 'thirsty'.  For attention, squeakers gotta squeak but Manowar and Middy get my vote just because they appear to be adults.

Wiley.

[Lusche]

Back to the original question from the OP, I'd say most of the people who gun for top scores would have to be pretty 'thirsty'. 

Actually, having 'top scores' give you very little attention, and the little you get is most likely to be very negative.

[JunkyII]

[Wiley]

Actually, having 'top scores' give you very little attention, and the little you get is most likely to be very negative.

Well, the question was posed as thirst to be the best as well as attention.  I agree with what you say about the attention part, but I think going for top scores requires a commitment that would take a fair bit of motivation if they've decided that's 'being the best'.

Most people that show up to things like KOTH have some level of desire to be good as well.

Wiley.

[Vinkman]

What is E.L.E.?

Extinction Level Event

[Volron]

Tree.

/thread

[Latrobe]

I was gonna nominate myself, but then I realized you weren't talking about beer.

I thought this thread was going to be about who drinks the most while flying as well. I was going to brag that I would win that easily 

[waystin2]

Walleye

[Tumor]

C'mon, somebody do it.  It's just dangling there, ready, willing, wanting...

[Wiley]

C'mon, somebody do it.  It's just dangling there, ready, willing, wanting...

It's more entertaining not to.

Wiley.