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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Majors on December 11, 2012, 10:36:53 AM
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Hello Mates
Most of you won't remember me, or have known me. I have been in AH since beta days. I am a retired business man and Army aviator. I have been flying Flight Sim since it's inception and found on-line flying when I retired at 60 in 1966 with Warbirds. Had some great years there and came over here when Hitech was getting this up.
I flew in on-line sims just like real life. Did everything possible not to get killed. So, no super high furball scores, etc. AH has been great. In my later years really enjoyed Naval action. anti aircraft and low level bombing in my trusty A20.
Many thanks to you all for making these late years in my life a little more pleasant.
So, this old soldier will just fade away.....
Cheers to you all.
Over and Out
Majors
249RAF Goldcoast
Oldest Yank in the RAF
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Age doesn't matter in this game. At least not if you are old enough to understand it. :salute
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Take care Majors.
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:salute Majors
I disagree that you can really fade away. Although the Humans that we are will someday cease to be we will live on in what we have brought to this life. In AH I'm sure you have brought enjoyment to others in a skirmish or two. In life we live on through our deeds. You probably did more for the cause of freedom I will ever be able to.
Thanks for being part of this community so I could get a small glimpse of what it may be like to confront a deadly enemy in the sky.
:salute Slate
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on-line flying when I retired at 60 in 1966 with Warbirds.
Your 106 years old !!!!
Damm !!!!
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on-line flying when I retired at 60 in 1966 with Warbirds.
Your 106 years old !!!!
Damm !!!!
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The 1966 Warbirds were pretty analog.
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Hey Majors! Sad to see you go bro! See you on the other side :D :salute
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Major thanks for being part of this and especially for your sacifice in RL .
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HL
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damn....you have seen the world change....... :salute :salute
would love to just sit and talk to ya....the knowledge you have in that brain...... :O
I feel old........and I was born in 69......
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Holy Cow!! 106 years old???? Send me what you're drinkin!!!
SALUTE!!!!!!!!! :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute
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Warbirds started 1996
Warbirds started 1996.
Was there from 1997, and enjoyed beeing there, I was a trainer there from 2000 until a year ago.
Specially enjoyed flying with a guy over there named "perc", he was 82 years old then, some 15 years ago.
<S> Majors
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Take care up there old man, when your time comes.
Thank you for your service. :salute
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Holy Cow!! 106 years old???? Send me what you're drinkin!!!
SALUTE!!!!!!!!! :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute
I think he meant 1996. 1966 is a typo.
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I find the use of "over and out" odd.
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I find the use of "over and out" odd.
Sounds sad, yet somehow proud, actually. :salute
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hey Majors, dont leave sir. us younger types sure like learning what we can from you guys. ET37 comes to mind. he was a real b29/b17 pilot. when we do missions with him, he has comms, and everything he says is authentic lingo and terms that they really did use. for me, i can hear the need in his voice to give us that experience as best as he can. i listen intently, bc im afraid ill miss out on a piece of authentic history. i want you old codgers here, for me its gratifying and almost fatherly when ET says " that a boy, go get em!" when we see a bad guy in on the bombers. you want to fight for him. i swell with pride every dam time. it makes me feel good for him to see us giving the red guys hell. hes the kind of leader that folks cant help but follow, bc hes that dam good and magnetic. i would bet that just based on your experience in life, you have that same effect on the guys who surely look up to you. i really hate to see our heroes leave the game. bc all the knowledge you have. not just in game, but the branches of thinking that spring up after flying with you guys. it offers real life experience to draw from. for me, as soon as i heard ET was a real bomber pilot, i started daydreaming about what he mustve been thinking on bomb runs, how it mustve been to fly one of those big dam planes, so on and so on. it opened up a whole new world of thinking and his time became even more real to me. thats worth the 15 a month by itself imo. sure hate to see you go.
all my best to you,
AlBundy(ingame)
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hey Majors, dont leave sir. us younger types sure like learning what we can from you guys. ET37 comes to mind. he was a real b29/b17 pilot. when we do missions with him, he has comms, and everything he says is authentic lingo and terms that they really did use. for me, i can hear the need in his voice to give us that experience as best as he can. i listen intently, bc im afraid ill miss out on a piece of authentic history. i want you old codgers here, for me its gratifying and almost fatherly when ET says " that a boy, go get em!" when we see a bad guy in on the bombers. you want to fight for him. i swell with pride every dam time. it makes me feel good for him to see us giving the red guys hell. hes the kind of leader that folks cant help but follow, bc hes that dam good and magnetic. i would bet that just based on your experience in life, you have that same effect on the guys who surely look up to you. i really hate to see our heroes leave the game. bc all the knowledge you have. not just in game, but the branches of thinking that spring up after flying with you guys. it offers real life experience to draw from. for me, as soon as i heard ET was a real bomber pilot, i started daydreaming about what he mustve been thinking on bomb runs, how it mustve been to fly one of those big dam planes, so on and so on. it opened up a whole new world of thinking and his time became even more real to me. thats worth the 15 a month by itself imo. sure hate to see you go.
all my best to you,
AlBundy(ingame)
Well said Vuduu! :salute
Flew with ET couple missions fun stuff quite the leader.
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wondering why he is leaving? anyone know?
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wondering why he is leaving? anyone know?
166 posts in 12 years. I suspect this was an important last post. :frown:
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:huh :pray :pray :old: :old: Good luck Sir :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute
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wondering why he is leaving? anyone know?
Probably got tired of Midway's drivel on 200.
ack-ack
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Probably got tired of Midway's drivel on 200.
ack-ack
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We can't keep old timers around just because we want them to; that is selfish.
When things get on a bit, you will learn as well; that the ancient stories of the older ones putting themselves out of "society" so they can quietly dissapear from the eyes of others, is a rite of passage for those with the stoutest of hearts and minds.
Being mature is about letting go of things, life and nicities are something you eventually have to let go of as well, even if it makes others around you sad.
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We can't keep old timers around just because we want them to; that is selfish.
When things get on a bit, you will learn as well; that the ancient stories of the older ones putting themselves out of "society" so they can quietly dissapear from the eyes of others, is a rite of passage for those with the stoutest of hearts and minds.
Being mature is about letting go of things, life and nicities are something you eventually have to let go of as well, even if it makes others around you sad.
i wasnt trying to be selfish. i was trying to be nice and say what i felt. that rite of passage was bc in those days the older folks considered themselves a burden on the futures of the people in their prime. its not like that today. i know these things.
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Very well said VuDuvee.
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Reading through Majors' previous posts, he really wanted that Beaufighter. :airplane:
Hope it comes one day and you get to fly it, Majors. :)
If it does show up one day, you'll be the first person I think of when I fly it. :salute
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:cheers: Oz
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OOOOOOPS!!!
Retired at 60 in 1996!!! Now you see why it's time for me to fade away. Can't type, remember much and just get around.
Cheeries
Majors
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You may not fly the game but stay in touch. I hope to see ou on one of my Honors Flights to DC! I love o talk to the Vets on board our aircraft!
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Flifast
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The "Old Soldiers just fade away" quote came from General Douglas McArthur's speech to congress in the 1950's when Pres. Truman fired him. I listened to the speech on the radio.
Also, as for the aircraft in AH. I have been a Colonel in the CAF since the mid 1970's. As a sponser for the rebuild on a P-38 and a Martin B-26, I was allowed to either fly or ride in every flyable aircraft they had. From a Stearman up to "Fifi" their B29 (including a Mossie). Wonderful time for me in late 70's and early 80's. I grew up during WWII.
Again, I have enjoyed my time with all you folks and wish you the best.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Sorry for the typos
Majors
249 RAF (ret)
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I have been flying Flight Sim since it's inception and found on-line flying when I retired at 60 in 1966 with Warbirds.
So you're 106 years old? What did you play on in 1966? A Cray Super computer?
[EDIT] Nevermind. I just saw your revision.
BTW, at 72 you're still younger than Vilkas (by at least 10 years IIRC) and he's still going strong.
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The "Old Soldiers just fade away" quote came from General Douglas McArthur's speech to congress in the 1950's when Pres. Truman fired him. I listened to the speech on the radio.
Also, as for the aircraft in AH. I have been a Colonel in the CAF since the mid 1970's. As a sponser for the rebuild on a P-38 and a Martin B-26, I was allowed to either fly or ride in every flyable aircraft they had. From a Stearman up to "Fifi" their B29 (including a Mossie). Wonderful time for me in late 70's and early 80's. I grew up during WWII.
Again, I have enjoyed my time with all you folks and wish you the best.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Sorry for the typos
Majors
249 RAF (ret)
Don't leave! Come gun some and/or stay on the BBS and tell us some stories that only you can tell. Please. :rock
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Don't leave! Come gun some and/or stay on the BBS and tell us some stories that only you can tell. Please. :rock
+ 1 i second this
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