Here is how we looked 10 years ago, picture taken at Electric Sky, where I work and where our servers are located. A house behind at the right is where Vladimir Putin lives.
One of this guys lives in San-Jose now, another is in Sydney (I have met him in November).
People who were in 25th IAP never quit. Partisans.
Anarchic regiment of terminators who are able of tearing anyone apart, right into the Union Jack. During Stalingrad event back in 1999 one guy from our regiment scored almost as much kills as all LW crowd all together, while our XO was flying for LW and scored more then 1/2 of all their kills
I flew there with my right hand paralized and made 8 kills...
For several years we were an ugly face of Russian flightsim community, now young mob have done better then we did. But we were the first TEAM here in Russia, and our hobby started the avalanche: IL-2 had to be a tank-killing arcade until our pilot was hired into Maddox Games (and we showed WB to Oleg in 1999), Flying Barans got investment and make a WWI sim, called Knights of the Sky now, dozens of people got their jobs and/or moved overseas, all because we started it 10 years ago, after Africa's preaching in RU.GAME.FLIGHT Fidonet echo-conference.
I know that when I visit any city in Russia - I always find fellow-pilots, I flew around the world this Autumn, thanks to Wolfala, and I was greeted by a fellow-pilot in Sydney, Australia... Just came home at 02:00 after sending Russian (SimFreak) to Leningrad, he helped me when I was in California in September, and now lived at my bachelor's pigsty in Msk for a week (he said he had a good time and enjoyed it, he's SO polite!). We are all - one blood, I have said many times that I will give shelter, food and drinks to anyone who flies air combat sims.
We all learned to type with left hand. Thanks to +HT+ anf PYRO. They are our prophets.
