Hi.
I'm Gray Eagle, and you're not.
Are you good at flight sims?
(go ahead, list 'em all, tell us all how good you are at 'em, get it off your chest)
Now.
Welcome to Air Warrior (now it's Aces High that has the ball)
This aint no flight sim.
-evil grin-
And so it began ..back when I posted on the GEnie bulletin board.
I loved pokin fun at the new guys who came online, because we had all been there.
I was *so* jazzed to find a place I could go and actually learn *why* a Mustang was a good fighter,
..how the Spitfire saved Britain, ..why close escort was such a bad idea, ..all the other things I had read about growing up.
I'm not just an airplane nut.. more of an air war history enthusiast.. the more I read the more I wanted to find out.
When I first began online I was in aerospace, fresh outta the USAF,
..on the production line for the B1-b as defensive avionics lead tech an lovin it.
When layoffs got crazy in the late '80's I went back to school to learn CAD Engineering..still playin AW
..got a call one day from Jonathan 'Blue' Baron and got hired by Kesmai as Lead Artist for AW.
When AW got shutoff, I went to Papyrus Racing games, NASCAR was a real challenge to get into,
..I learned it's not just 'go fast, turn left'
French company bought Papyrus, laid off a bunch of folks, the guys who made the game left,
..I was asked to come work on Falcon 5.0. -sigh- ..G2Interactive failed to make payroll after several months.
Did a stint as detailer for re-bar installation on construction projects, oh sure it's fun ..
..Frik-kin 17 projects on my desk .. every little detail of building code .. changes hourly sometimes,
and I had to go out and physically *find* the foreman's rebar now an then? .. screw THAT!!
(I didn't wear mud boggers nor did I drive one)
Nowadays.. ima Nurse, an lovin it.
Recommend it to anyone lookin for short school times, hi job satisfaction, etc.
..and ..I'm still good at flight sims
-evil grin-
-Frank P. 'Gray Eagle' Williamson, LPN -> RN, a dweeb and knows it.