l'il Reaper, aka new squeeker in town

[captain1ma]

My boy James is 6 years old and is a WWII airplane nut, and loves nothing more than going to airshows, playing with model airplanes, and flying on the computer. Up until last night he had always sat in front of me, and just held on while I flew it. Gradually I let him fire the weapons, and fly a little when there were no cons around. Last night I put him in the offline practice area and let him up a P-38J (his mostest favoritest bird of all!) all by himself, and told him he was going to fly it with no help from me. Well, 10 minutes later he was doing loops, rolls, and had managed to taker her up to over 17K with nary a single crash! He flew that bird forever it seemed, and finally ran it out of fuel. Funny thing is, he brought it down dead-stick and crash laneded it without getting killed! The SAPP guys would be proud, the damage list showed both engines gone, the elevators, rudders, and right wing gone also. But he was alive, and yelling for me because he didn't know how to end sortie and take off again! Heck, I shoulda told him how to put his gear down, but didn't figure he would need it!

I promise I'll keep him in the offline practice til he can actually reach the rudder pedals!

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Get him a x52 with a twisty stick, no need for rudder pedals!

[Reaper90]

Get him a x52 with a twisty stick, no need for rudder pedals!

That's exactly the plan, at this point. I'm trying to save my pennies for a new box from Tildeath, and a 28" monitor, and when I get that I'll be buying him some Saitek stuff to go one old 'puter.

[morfiend]

Reaper,

 As I said anytime you want to let him go online check to see if I'm in the TA,you could check the calander for specific times and I'll gladly play target! If you have concerns a quick PM and I can let ya know if I think it's a good time or not. Unfortunately there are times when players in the TA arent on their best behaviour.

 When the time comes,just get intouch with me and I'm sure something can be arranged to make it as pleasent a time as possible.I've done this for several players kids and ussually end up having fun myself.

   

[SkyRock]

<S> lil Reaper   

[texastc316]

Lil Reaper OWNZ skyrock

[SkyRock]

Lil Reaper OWNZ skyrock

nah...he's a HO dweeb! <ducks big reapers shoe>   

 

[Enker]

lol, you're describing my own room as a child! I had the largest furball imaginable happening right in my bedroom, involving everything from a P-40B right up to an F-15C and a B-1 bomber, all turning and burning! All hung from the ceiling from the thinnest monofilament fighing line I could find so the line would be as invisible as possible. IIRC probably ended up having somewhere in the order of 20+ models hanging from the ceiling of a room that was about 12x14 (as best memory serves).

We've already got all the kits waiting to be built to recreate some great dogfights in his room, problem is I'm so slow building them that it'll likely take a few years to put them all together. 

Don't worry, it took me a year and a half to build my "F"BD Dauntless, and a little over a year to build my F4U-4 with cannons. I still haven't painted them, but I think I might skip that step and go straight to the firecracker pile when the Fourth comes along, as the glue work on the canopies is a little...messy.

[Reaper90]

 When the time comes,just get intouch with me and I'm sure something can be arranged to make it as pleasent a time as possible.I've done this for several players kids and ussually end up having fun myself.

   

Morfiend, I'll def take you up on that offer. He's got a lot of learning to do, but he'll come along quick I'm sure.

Thanks for the offer. 

Richard

[morfiend]

 

[Demetrious]

First time he put the gun noise and pulling the trigger together he laughed hysterically.

BAHAHAHAHAHA OH GOD!

I remember the first time I fell in love. Playing Aces Over Europe on ye olde 486, and I took the Mossie XIV out for the first time... and fired that 57mm cannon.

Ah. Ha. Hahaha. Bahahahaha. AAAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 

Man, I remember me in those days. I always used the P-51 because it could kill everything in a hard left-hand turn. All the time. It wasn't until much later I grasped that there was more to air combat then a hard left-hand turn.

Dear God I was a retard.