All former WB pilots, let's see a show of hands

[FLOOB]

Blast from the past! Checkout the old timers in this thread. I think I personally met about half of them at the '02 con. Played AWIII then discovered WB when it was like a dollar an hour or something like that, played that off and on for about a year maybe less then heard about a new sim called Aces High in 1999 and the rest is history.

[Kanth]

WB and DOA 

Onerka, DOA was a blast for quite a while.  I wish the WW1 in here was as much fun, but I think it's very slow.

[oboe]

WB, started in late '98.   Flew as -oboe- with the old 27th Sentai under aanvil and BigRed.  WB was alot of fun back then, with 4 colored countries - the Barneys, Frogs, Santas and ??   Sure appreciated the $29.95 HTC flat monthly subscription fee over the $70 I was averaging in WBs.

[edge12674]

Raises hand.

Started in AW on GEnie flying with the squad A.C.I.D (Agents of Common Intent - Demolition).  When CK/WB came about the squad disbanded and a few of us members created WoD (Wings of Death).  I flew there as --ed-- and -edge-.  I still have the sweatshirt and polo shirts awarded for winning duels with Dale and Pyro.  Shortly after "WildBill" took over WB I went to AH and have flown as TShark ever since.  Now I REALLY feel old!

[lunatic1]

Hey thanks for posting this, I like to see where folks origins came from.   

I never had the privledge to fly Warbirds. Once I was looking for a differnt sim, I looked to Aces High and saw no need to look further, though many of my squad tried WBs.

Looks like alot of great experience here 

same here

[oboe]

Raises hand.

Started in AW on GEnie flying with the squad A.C.I.D (Agents of Common Intent - Demolition).  When CK/WB came about the squad disbanded and a few of us members created WoD (Wings of Death).  I flew there as --ed-- and -edge-.  I still have the sweatshirt and polo shirts awarded for winning duels with Dale and Pyro.  Shortly after "WildBill" took over WB I went to AH and have flown as TShark ever since.  Now I REALLY feel old!

I think I remember -edge-.   I remember winning a WB T-shirt too, from the KILLME events where a WB staff member would fly around the MA for an hour so and everybody who got a kill on them would get a free T-shirt.   That was a fun event.   

[Mano]

<raises hand>

Flew in Dawn of Aces, Armored Assault(tanks), and WarBirds.
Always the same callsign. I also flew Red Baron on INN before Dawn of Aces came along.

Flew with Piranha, Onerka, Sling, Skarp, Ebee, Dxdxdx, Digler, JDHogg, Tommy, psjc, ichabd,  et. al in
The Pig Stompers. Our favorite Squad to fight was the FT's (Flying Tigers). Great bunch of guys as well.
I think you remember them Rekkof   

 

[LCADolby]

-dolby  475th Fighter Group "Satan's Angels" for about 2 months towards the end of 2014

[icepac]

I really miss the DOA Zeppellin.

[save]

version 1.07 -> 3.x
Trainer corps  1999-2010

CO of Royal Swedish Air Force squadron.

Pilot handle  'save' and '=save='

[Snork]

Joined WB in early '97 at the behest of a group I worked with flying a couple of T-6's and a C-45 (once in a while for close in events we took an L-5) around to air shows. Got a local squadron going using phone conference calling for coms before voice was available. We moved to AH in early beta.  I flew as GronK originally, then Snork, Dagger, and others as I drifted in and out and the squadron members left or died. We did what I think was the very first AH memorial fly-by when our CO passed from cancer.

[OttoJg14]

Hello Otto! Heard you had more kills than anybody else in Warbirds. 

That would be me! Is the original Jg14 still around..or maybe some alter Kammeraden?

[Dawger]

WB from 1997 until they let Crummpp do flight models, then the 475FG moved to AH. Members drifted away and I finally quit AH out of boredom. It was too hard to find an aerial fight. Everyone was in GV's after about 9 pm.

Stayed away from online games for several years until I got sucked back into WB to work on flight models. We built some awesome models, probably the most authentic outside of DCS and certainly the most authentic MMOG models.(Yes I am bragging)

HOWEVER...........

Flight models don't mean diddly poo with poor game play design and WB is tops in poorly thought out game play design not to mention crap GUI and graphics

AND

not everyone likes challenging flight models. (I am sure someone will slag me in this thread. WB is toxic as hell and those trolls won't be able to resist)

So the 475FG seems to be moving back to AH since WB game play is now officially never going to change.

I am really enjoying AHIII and I hope the constant aerial action remains when it goes into production. If it does, then we will be happy here.

[-ammo-]

Ahh the old days.  Started out in WB's in 98

[Pudgie]

 

Raises hand...................

Man reading this thread was like reading a early '70's high school yearbook..................... ....

Started playing WB's @ 2.01 on 8-7-98 and still carry a subscription to this day. WB in game handle was\is Flyhii..............

Did a little stint in AW3 as well just before it was pulled.

Moved to AH just before the upgrade to the now old AHII due to the graphics issues I was having w\ my Nvidia vid card in WBIII at that time. Can't remember the year...................

Been here since.

Ironic that I can't get into WB 2016 now due to the D3D_Compiler issue..................

This genre of game is the only game that I like to play so I support both of them and have done so for quite some time.