Fancy seeing an Air Warrior screenshot on my "yearly-ish" browse of this board, and in a recent thread no less. First played it in 1994 myself, although not heavily until about 1996. I don't see shots from that game too often anymore. I still miss it. I load the DOS version up on a DOS-emulator on my PC once in awhile and take a flight around the empty arena for nostalgia's sake. Since its closure by Electronic Arts I have not spent a dime on a product associated with EA and I intend never to do so.
I never tried Confirmed Kill until it morphed into Warbirds and I never played WB very much largely because it stuck with obsolete hourly pricing for far too long. I recall trying out Aces High beta in '99 and figured even at the time it'd more or less replace Warbirds. I didn't foresee Aces High turning into a sort of community lifeboat after Air Warrior and (later) Fighter Ace were closed. I haven't subscribed to this game in a very long time but I still appreciate and respect the community.