I will never forget the Saturdays dogfiting you in the towns of old Iron Bottom Sound. That was definitely the best time of my online life.
Haha, that was always a lot of fun for me. It came from flying one of the earliest versions of Flight Simulator and then moving up to Air Warrior. Flight Simulator was kind of boring back then (still is in a way today), and I would go down low in the cities and fly in between the buildings. It just carried over to Air Warrior and was twice as much fun when you were doing the same thing and dodging bullets at the same time. :-)
Moggy! Good to see you again. I remember you well. Always a good warrior of the skies.
Vghost, were you Ghost, or Ghost Rider, or someone else altogether?
Gotta tell you all about the day I had today. It was a great one. I had the pleasure of making the day for one of the real old air warriors from WWII. As I mentioned before, in another topic, I discovered that one of the people who work part-time for the city here along with me was a B25 pilot in the pacific with the 13th AF.
The last time I talked with him, I gathered info about which group and squadron he flew with and then I came home and put Google to work. I checked out almost every website that came up on the searches I did and downloaded about 60 pictures of planes, pilots, crewmen, and targets.
Today I had about 45 minutes to spare and took my CD over to the place where he works and sat him down in front of one of the computers there and pulled them up for him to look at. He was like a kid in a toy store. He doesn't do computers btw, so he had never seen anything like this and was really awed by what he saw.
There were pictures of planes from his squadron that he recognized and he also named some of the crewmembers in some of the other pictures. But when I pulled up a picture of a museum plane that some guy owns in New Mexico, he lit up big time. "That's one of the planes I flew!" he said. The gleam in his eye absolutely made my day. I watched him out of the corner of my eye as he looked over the pictures of "Heavenly Body", one of the B-25's he flew back then.
I promised him that I would print all the pictures of his old ride that were on that website and bring them to him next time I was over to visit. He was thrilled. I tell you what....pleasure comes in many ways to us all, but lighting up this old air warrior from the past really did it for me today. It's a shame that these guys won't be around much longer for us to talk with and admire, and I plan on making it back over there as often as possible to chat with him some more. He's in pretty good shape for his age, but when you are as old as he is, today could be your last.
