Very very cool.
If anyone (HTC Public Relations? A history-based squadron?) ever organizes a collection point for gear to make up systems to give to veterans who would like to fly AH, I have a bunch of stuff that's not cutting edge gear but certainly "good enough" to play the game. A couple of ethernet cards, 56k modem, cheap sound card, a joystick or two, last year's video card, stuff like that. I'm sure lots of players have spare parts collecting dust, and this is certainly a nice thing to do.