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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Cobra on November 01, 2000, 06:35:00 PM
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For me it was Beta Version .35 and I think the date was Oct. 13, 1999.
Been flying it solid ever since (hehe, just ask my wife, she will be happy to tell anyone loud and clear!)
Cheers,
Cobra
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Open beta tour 1, october i think too.
Had a different handle for the 1st 2 tours "Azriel" (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Tour 7
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Day 1 open beta..
Same handle, but i did fly under the handle Typhoon flyin Rook in the + Over Modeled Uber 190s + Squad.. Man the a8 was grossly overmodeled when it 1st came out (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
Dog out..
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Day 1 of beta tour 1.
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
eskimo
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first week, beta 1
same call sign, same team
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wolf37
C.O.
THUNDER BIRDS
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Moss mentioned it to me in Dallas at AW99...think it resurfaced at end of october and I signed up in Nov sometime.
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October 99 Tour 1
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2 minutes after I downloaded it!
Ahh... You mean "when" September 29 1999 5:11:31PM
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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Beta tour 2, just after the update which contained the 190a8.
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SageFIN
"The wolves are gathering, the stars are shifting...
come, join us in the hunt!"
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Hmmm...about 10 hours after the release on open Beta Day (had to wait until I got home).
BTW: If you look close, I had the first post for the release of open Beta! I was at the fire station bored to death waiting for the grand Beta day to begin..(and I'm always thankful to be bored at the fire station!! )
Hehe..I'll never forget MarkAT. Very helpful with new questions! <S> Sir!
..and very deadly in the canyons. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Just think! After flying from the first day of Beta.....I'm still a dweeb pilot. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Ozark
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332nd Flying Mongrels (http://www.ropescourse.org/flying.htm)
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As soon as I got broadband access, june this year. I've had withdrawal from WB the last year since i decided not to have a phone (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif).
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Rickenbacker (Ricken)
-ISAF-
the Independent Swedish Air Force
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Day 1 of Tour 1, played all through beta, signed up for my free two weeks, couldn't afford it, crawled under my rock again and came back to start posting on the msg board. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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===>Frosty
====>Exposure2k.com
=====>Frosty@exposure2k.com
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started in (early?) october '99 as 214CaveJ.
Changed me handle to CavemanJ when I started the pay account.
My how things have changed since then (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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A few hours after Open beta hit the streets running on Day 1. I'm not sure what I did resembled "flying" so much as it looked like Olympic "lawn darting".
-Westy]
[This message has been edited by Westy (edited 11-01-2000).]
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Tour 1 under the handle "Pa"
Haven't improved much..but still having fun (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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day 1, tour 1 of beta, i believe. back then i used the handle 'shower'...
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Tour 5 and happily providing Allied scum with kills ever since (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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Wingnut
GeschwaderKommadore
P.T.R. "Black 13"
The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it - Baron Manfred von Richthofen
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Late Sept 99 under my old AW cpid 911
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Damned Stalker
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I started in tour 1, not sure if it was day 1 but it was close to it. I was flying another sim and knew this was comming. Kept my account there for a month, since I flew here everynight and there maby twice in that month, i canceled it and have been here ever since.
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Day 2, Tour 1 (beta)
Same bat handle,
same bat target.. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
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GreyBeard, Squadron Leader
Commander, "E" Flight, Aces High
Senior Staff Council
"The Skeleton Crew"
"Fly with Honor"[/i]
"Keepin' the Faith"
[This message has been edited by SC-GreyBeard (edited 11-01-2000).]
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I think I startet in Tour 1. I was flying EAW and SDOE at that time. I think it was Camo who told me about AcesHigh, and made me sign up, but it was Moss who talked me into giving it another chance.
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GrinBird
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Started in Tour 1 (i believe)... continued through to tour 9.... then broke for 3 days.
Came back as Aamram flying knights, until I got my old callsign back.
What a break eh?
LOL
Kronos
(my mind was elsewhere)
CO of newly formed No. 272 Squadron "Whispering Death"
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Got 6 sorties in beta tour 1 and been here since....oops up until last thursday.
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When did they put this thing in here and WTF is it for?
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Day one of beta, back in early or mid September, 1999
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Oct 99. Beta Tour 1. Flyin pony then, flyin pony now. Dyin in pony then, dyin in pony now. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Um... last monday... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
But I kinda watched the game idly since a friend tipped me off to it. Didn't have 3D back then, or I'd have flown in the free beta (I love those!). Only reason I'm flying now is the 2 week free trial. Probably won't continue after that, even though it is a good game. Too much money.
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-Freelancer
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Feb/2000. Wish I had started earlier.
sax
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October 99 for me Cobra, I was flying with my bro WMKMS and he was chating with you. We were Knights 5 of us at the time as I rember.
Oh ya I was BenDover then, changed to my real name Goat10 later. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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I Hate It When That Happens!
[This message has been edited by goat10 (edited 11-01-2000).]
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Nov 4th; 1999.
It was my birthday and lemme tell yah; after all that dyin, I felt mighty old. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Hang
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October last year. Teatered off an elevated field in a spit. thought...wow. When I stop to look arround now I still do say wow.
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beta tour 2or3 for my 2 week trial i believe...started account tour 1
this is the first online flight sim ive played so my tours show my progress and i
never tried WB online (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
hazed 3./JG2
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1 of 1.
Hey - this reminds me... There was this great flyer that was around back then. Haven't seen him in ages... Can't remember his call sign at all though.... If memory serves it was Spanish sounding, or Mexican... Like, not as in Jose or anything... more like Taco or Columbo or something.... but not. In fact, it might not be even remotely Spanish or Mexican related. It just dawned on me that he's not around anymore. Nice rambling post huh? Er... anyone know who I'm talking about?
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If this helps, he was like Beta Tour's 2 or 3 Mitsu, before Mitsu had in fact arrived.
Hmm... some people express themsleves quite nicely while intoxicated. I cannot.
[This message has been edited by Nash (edited 11-02-2000).]
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I started the first week of October '99. Beta Tour 1. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
I think it took me a whole day getting a p51 off the ground. Eventually I had to buy a joystick with a rudder. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
Seems like all we could fly was the p51, b17, spit9, 109g10, c47, and maybe the la5. Bombers had no bombsight or gunners. Dropping troops sounded like rabid sheep. Guns were like lasers, no clouds, solid blue sky, no compression, no plane limits, WOW we've come a long way. Anybody remember when if you got a b17 up to 42k or so you got a message. "Activating supplemental rocket boosters, maintaining 2.5k per min climb rate?" (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif) Either that or I think for the first few hours that version .46 came out that b17s flew at 600 mph and couldn't slow down or stop climbing! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) Oh, and the acks, those things used to be able to shoot down a flea at 10k.
Those were the good old days.... LOL (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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bloom25
THUNDERBIRDS
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Day #1. I won't forget looking around and going "Wow, this is what I've been waiting for all my life!" as I was climbing out for the first time.
ts
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October of 99 (Beta 1). Some fool I played Rogue Spear with, who shall remain nameless <cough> Soulyss <cough>, told me about this. Since then, I have been hopelessly addicted (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) Speaking of which, I am screwed when the Navy gets here with its wonderful Hellkitty!! I will never leave the damn game...
-math
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"Any American fighter near Orote Penninsula. I have forty Jap planes surrounded and need a little help."
-Ens. W.B. "Spider" Webb during the Marians Turkey Shoot
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Tour 2. Look at my AWESOME stats for tour 2:
Kills of Fighters 17
Kills of Bombers 3
Fighter Assists 7
Bomber Assists 2
Sorties 107
Landed 28
K/D: 0.349
I ruled you all back then (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif).
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StSanta
9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
(http://www.angelfire.com/nt/regoch/sig.gif)
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day 1, tour 1, hour 1.
i have not masturbated ever again
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Wow, a who's-who's list of who is paying $30 a month.
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BETA tour 2. Had a nice stint, as gunner in various bomber ops. First fighter kill was a Bf-109 G10, oddly the same plane type I was flying. Never forget what the guy told me "I never saw u, nice job!". I remember the murderous torque on takeoff, laser guns, Stuper-Buffs; it was great. One thing I'll also never forget is someone saying "Damnnnnnit! I can't takeoff!" after crashing his P51 for the umpteenth time.
Took me about 4 tries before I was up and running, and all 4 I died on. On attempt #5 I finally got that 109 up, and man was it fun. About the laser AAA; I have the scene etched in my head even now. P-51 diving in on me trying to land for the first time. Laser-guided ack nailed him at 4.7k and he sailed right past me before vanishing. Remember back then? No smoke, no falling parts, no debris, and no BIG fireballs! "Smoke causes lock-ups or dumps w/voodoo cards" bug I'll always remember.
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Flakbait
Delta 6's Flight School (http://www.worldaccessnet.com/~delta6)
"My art is the wings of an aircraft through the skies, my music the deep hum of a prop as it slices the air, my thrill the thunder of guns tearing asunder an enemy plane."
Flakbait
19 September 2000
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beta tour 1
no NIKI's
no dweebhog
no Ostwind
good old times....
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Downloaded it just when 1.0 was up...put it in offline, took a Dhog, and crashed when it went out of the runway
Clicked the fly button again, crashed again.
Tried a Spit ("oh, well, Hog was a difficult plane to fly, right?"). Crashed it (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Had not a clue about what the F$%&k was happening (didnt had rudders then, only my humble jok...errr yoke (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)), until I found a guy in IRC a couple of day later (when I had already thought "TO THE HELL!!!!" and grabbed Falcon4 again) and told me to give it a try...
Then everything else is known...my first kill (At 900yards with a Spit's hispanos LOL (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)),my first sortie in a Chog (got 3 kills (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)), my first "coordinated mission" with JG2 in their Squad's Night(hey Swager I will never forget that you were my leader and you crashed at takeoff LOL! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif))...and my first Fw190A8 sortie in MA winging Ripsnort (got 4 kills (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif))....
ahh...goooooooood old days when knights were so outnumbered, and Creamo was Knit....
And nikis were almost unknown
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
[This message has been edited by RAM (edited 11-02-2000).]
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October '99, I was THE spitdweeb... cause it was the only plane I could take off in. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) Hollywd took me under his wings (where did he go btw?). My first handle was JENG, but I changed it in the first betatour to Bee. Flew alot with Lephturn and Ghosth who both taught me alot... then the Belgian dweebs (come back Saw), JG2 and now the Rattlers.
Sadly haven't had alot of time to fly lately ... girlfriend is at the moment taking up alot of time and I don't mind it a bit (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
SALUTE TO ALL THE ACES!
Bee
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September 99. First day, remembering the d/l frenzy, jeez, the board was nuts, still is, lol.
<S>
trm
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Not soon enough. After a hard drive crash and a corrupt FA password force me to look elsewhere for my flying fix.
Tour 3
Eagler
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Alpha release #1. Amazing how much has changed in such a short time frame. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Bo
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Beta tour #1 under the callsign, skyviper. Was skyvpr in WB.
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Apache
=XO= VMF-323 Death Rattlers
VMF 323 Death Rattlers Web Site (http://home.earthlink.net/~bkapache)
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Downloaded V.35, didn't play online til Beta tour 2...so Oct. I was offline dinking around, late Oct, and online in November.
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Week 1...Tour 1
What a trip (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Ice
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From Beta day 1.
Kieren amd I downloaded it as soon as it was available.
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Mighty1
The New Baby Harp Seals
"Come try to club THIS Seal"
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Beta Tour 1, Day 1 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif).
Maik
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Sometime in late 1973 or early 1974.
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Rocket made me download ver 0.33 (october 99?)... I was a full time bomber pilot in beta, I got around 8 fps on my K6-200 and flying fighters wasn't that much fun.
I really enjoyed the times when buffs didn't have guns (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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August 2000 and I believe it was Tour 7
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NHFoxtro
-XO-NightHawks
(http://heathblair.tripod.com/nhcouger.gif)
NightHawks "WE BAD"
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Online it was in February 2000, but I actually spent two and a half months playing offline!!! So when I finally did get online the only thing that troubled me was the radio.
RAM, I can identify with you! It spent ages for me to get any plane off the runway!
Regards
'Nexx'
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Rocket walks into the Aces High Anonymous meeting. He looks around the room at all the faces and with a small shake in his voice says "Hello, my name is Rocket and I have been addicted to Aces High since Sept. 99. I started in tour 1 and haven't been able to force myself away since. I have lost 25lbs and haven't gotten a hair cut since. I have bed sores from sitting in my chair for days on end." He hangs his head and takes a seat.
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Open beta tour 1.
Mox
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I first tried during tour 4. Got killed 49 time to my 6 kills. Frustration set in and I gave it up for a couple of months. Re-subscribed this year and am having more fun than I ever did in AW.
Lars
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anyone has an executable of the first beta? I'd like to install that for nostalgia
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I remember now - Pirado. Anyone know what he's been up to?
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Since day 1 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
With a short hiatus in there for school (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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-Rebel
JG2 "Richtofen"
"You Rebel Scum"
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Beta 1 Day 2, I think!!! Long time ago!!
Yea! Thanks RAM for reminding me. I crashed and BigJim took over! I re-uped and You and I tried to catch up. We watched while 5-6 guys went after 1 lone N1K2. Us two had to defend the bombers against a bunch of hi alt P-51s! We scared them alittle!!
Alot of you guys feel like family!!!! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Since the early Alpha days. My mind is too feeble to remember the exact date, but the planeset was small and the head bounce was horrific!
<S> HiTechCreations!
buhdman, out
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Walt (buhdman) Barrow
(formerly lt-buhd-lite)
The Buccaneers - "Return with Honor"
home.earthlink.net/~wjbarrow
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I got you all beat! Me and Superfly became the 3rd and 4th people to ever fly AH! That was way before beta. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Nathan "NATEDOG" Mathieu
Art Director
HiTech Creations
-=HELLFIRE SQUAD=-
".... And on the eighth day, God created beer. "
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(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) HT and Pyro were 1st and 2nd then, Nate?
...started somewhen back in early beta - trying to get a 109 in the air (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif) - my first "field capture" was very interesting as well - lawndarting a C47 from 15k or so... started life as a valiant knight and, after a few excurses, return to the homeland... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) man, remember the days when knights were outnumbered 10vs1? Just like nowadays... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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2-week trial: Early August 2000
Subscription: September 2000
Had a four week break since then, cos of lack of computer. Then found I my old P166 ran the game!
Dogfighting at 10 FPS is sooooooooooo hard! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
Looking at the quality of players here and how long they've been on, it looks like I got a long, LONG way to go! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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Dowding
No. 272 Squadron "Whispering Death"
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ahh it was September 99 Animal told me Aces High was going beta I told him Aces who?
Then he told me about who mas making it ...I wet my pants and the rest is history!
I'm on haedus since February damnit I want to come back buahahahaha!!!!!
eh.... I need rehab oh well
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Glasses---I may have 4 eyes ,but you only have one wing.