Warbirds.

[Grendel]

And how the events worked?

Briefings for todays fight: http://agw.dogfighter.com/agw//Forum5/HTML/001389.html

And after action report from last week's EMC: http://agw.dogfighter.com/agw//Forum5/HTML/001382.html

And if you're really interested, I got lots and lots of After Action Reports, guncamera films and photos in my WB page:
 http://dns.mikrobitti.fi/~jukkak/warbirds.htm

Haven't updated it for a long time now though but combats are going on strong still.

I haven't flown in AH scenarioes except one (first scenario and came out with two kills :-) ) so I can't comment much about them myself though. At least the times are really screwed for European pilots, so not much chance for jumping in to test.

[fd ski]

www.s3events.com

for close to 3 years, every sunday ( with 2,3 weeks of a break bewteen events ) over 300 pilots shows up to fly a historical sceanrio.

Success of S3 events in WB is yet to be matched by anything i've seen in sims.

[funkedup]

I flew WarBirds too but where I "come from" is SubLogic Flight Simulator for the Apple II.  That's where it all started you newbies.  

[Nifty]

you all suck.  I started with THIS game.  I didn't come from anywhere else, so nyah.    Unless you're gonna tell me to count Aces of the Pacific and Aces over Europe.  

[Ripsnort]

If you want to pull senority Funked, I was doing a numbers only flight with this two-cart system wheeled into our school room in 1977.  

[Westy MOL]

In 1974 me and another kid sitting in a desk three rows away flew paper airplanes, made from computer punch cards, at each other in mock aerial combat!

<neeners!>

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Westy MOL:
In 1974 me and another kid sitting in a desk three rows away flew paper airplanes, made from computer punch cards, at each other in mock aerial combat!

<neeners!>

Hey! It has to be electronic to qualify!  

Incidently, this was a Trig class that we used this IBM 2-cart system for..one held the multiple boxes, and the other cart held the huge black and white monitor.(Actually, televsion set!)

[Ripsnort]

And just for you young guys squeaking about upgrade costs:
 

[SOB]

Originally posted by Westy MOL:
In 1974 me and another kid sitting in a desk three rows away flew paper airplanes, made from computer punch cards, at each other in mock aerial combat!

<neeners!>

In 1974 my parents were in the bedroom playing downed Allied airman and French farmer's daughter...I was the result.  

You've all been beaten.


SOB
 

[Wanker]

Eeeeewwwweeee, Microchannel bus? <shudder>

I had almost put that out of my memory.  

[AKSWulfe]

Confirmed Kill V.91 -> WB1.11r3...

I had to pay for CompuServe too...
-SW

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by SWulfe:
Confirmed Kill V.91 -> WB1.11r3...

I had to pay for CompuServe too...
-SW

I don't remember what version of CK i was in, but we had "Blue" as one of the country colors, and about 4 "flyable condition" planes..V.82 or so?

Anyway, I can remember telnetting in...and DOS AW in 1989, was something like $6 an hour.  Glad those days are behind us!

[AKSWulfe]

Yeah that must of been around v.82-v.84, I knew guys who played the earlier versions and they would always talk about the blue country. ;-)
-SW

[Serapis]

Well, I don't know about "early" but, I flew in the very first online flight/fighter sim -- Airfight (?) on the PLATO system back in the late 1970s. About a dozen sorties or so at about two seconds per frame (60s jet combat no less, minus the missiles as I remember). It was virtyally unplayable at that framrate and with a keyboard ( I did pass close to a couple of planes before I crased on occasion). I began playing Empire, the "RTS" Star Trek game. I still remember my first kill against a Romulan bird of Prey being commanded by some obvious dweeb   :)I was a Jr. High School kid being smuggled into a univeristy hospital to play on the system so my Skillz were meager to say the least.

Charon

[ 10-31-2001: Message edited by: Charon ]

[mason22]

ya gotta love HB. ROCK ON D3\/\/D