Chatting in the MA with TA57, mentioned to him about the famous old Air Warrior pilot Scavenger SCAV, his online writings and his working for early NASA I believe.
one link is :
https://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/avia/scav.htmland here on AH bbs:
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"Fri. Sep. 03, 1993
T.NAUGHTON [SCAVENGER] at 23:36 EDT
I GO DIVING DOWN 1
I think my handle is very far out. That's cool or hot or bad depending on your generation bias. It comes with a vision of myself in AW. I saw myself cruising around like the Red Baron watching for victims. Since I am new I would cruise the skies of Europe looking for wounded warriors trying to get home. Engine smoking, control cables half shot away, aileron hanging flipping back and forth like Heston in Battle of Midway.
Then down would come the SCAVENGER preying on the helpless getting some easy kills building up his score, becoming a DWEEB to be reckoned with."
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"Terry Naughton (Scavenger) died, suddenly and unexpectedly, just a few months after he was inducted into the Turkey Ham squad. But not before he became known throughout Air Warrior as the man who spoke so eloquently from the heart and shared the fun, the wisecracks, the tremendous egos so easily spoofed and the hidden dreams that many of us live out through the toughest and greatest air combat simulation ever created.
Air Warrior had never seen a guy like Scav. There won't be another. He loved this game but he loved something even more. He loved the company of other dreamers. He loved the camaraderie, the boasting, the passion and the friendship. Scav though we were just about the best bunch of idiots he'd ever met in his all-too-brief life. He was right. We are. It was.
- Slug *TH*
A tribute to Terry Naughton (a.k.a. Scavenger)
Terry Naughton passed away July 2nd 1994, he was in the mid-fifties. I never had the chance of meeting him personally, i only knew him from his many and often funny messages on the GEnie electronical bulliten board and from some "radio messages" on a game called Air Warrior. We were both AW pilots, like hundreds of other flight-sim fans, we were enjoying recreating what it was like to be a World War II pilot, we fought for a Country, we were part of a Squadron, we were flying electronic replicas of WW II planes in a cyber sky. All in the comfort of our homes but it was the closest we could get to live.... our common dream.
Terry Naughton was known in the AW community as "Scavenger" of the Turkey Ham squadron. He wasn't the best 'pilot' in terms of flyin skills but he was the most universally liked person online. The announcement of his death brought sadness to all who had the chance to knew him, many of us felt we had lost a close friend.
His messages on the bulliten board were often funny, sometimes moving, and always friendly. It came as a fresh breeze after all the eggo-bashing, flame-throwing, chest-pounding messages that pretty much were the norm, at least in the famous Crash & Burn Cafe
It's been nearly two years now that he left us, but the posts are still in the memories of those who knew him... They always are a pleasure to re-read and they still bring us emotions. I decided to put some of them on my Web pages so to make them even more present to people who already have them on disks and to make them available to new flight-sim enthusiasts who didn't had the priviledge of being there.
Thank you again Scav!
Christian Labelle"
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