People
- personKeith Ainsworth
- content_pasteKeith publishes RETROGAMER, a printed fanzine published in Liverpool, UK which is dedicated to classic video games. Keith also wrote the monthly retro page in professional UK magazine Computer and Video Games through 1998. He has appeared on BBC television talking about the coin-op Space Invaders and the phenomenon of Pac-Man.
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- personBruce Artwick
- content_pasteProgrammer of Flight Simulator, which kicked off the world's longest running flight simulator dynasty.
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- personPeter Baldwin
- content_pastePeter has a degree in 3D Design and Product Design. Before joining Wayward, he was Design Manager at Rapid I.T. Group where he was responsible for 3D design, technical design, CAD modelling and Web site development. Prior to that he was principal partner in Mark Communications, a 3D design and animation group. In addition to his modelling and animation skills, he has demonstrated considerable aptitude and interest in games related graphics and concepts through his personal work over a number of years. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personMark Berent
- content_pasteHis first four books present stories based around flying the F-4 Phantom during the Vietnam conflict, a subject to which he obviously brings a wealth of personal experience.
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- personChris Bolton
- content_pasteRoyal Navy veteran & F4 Phantom pilot
- personLarry Bond
- content_pasteThe creator of the Naval Warfare simulation Harpoon. He applies the meticulous mind of a wargamer to writing and his books abound in credible and detailed encounters on land, sea and of course in the air. Lary Bond co-authored Red Storm Rising with Tom Clancy.
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- personGregory Boyington
- content_pasteGregory "Pappy" Boyington is a legend of World War 2 aviation. He personally shot down 28 Japanese planes and won the Congressional Medal of Honour and the Navy Cross.
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- personPaul Brain
- content_pasteFollowing a BSc in Mathematics at Bristol University Paul joined IPL, a contract software house as a programmer. Over the next 6 years Paul worked on real-time software systems for Westinghouse, Vodafone, Mercury Comms, Hewlett Packard and Sony Broadcast. In 1997 Paul joined Psygnosis to work as Lead programmer on the PC version of Special Forces. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personPhil Broad
- content_pastePhil Broad is a World War 2 aviation enthusiast who has a good collection online of his Mosquito snaps. He also runs a Warbirds Squadron so check it out if you are interested in flying a more up-to-date simulation of the Mosquito.
- personDale Brown
- content_pasteDale Brown is a former USAF captain who logged thousands of hours aboard B-52 and FB-111's. His novels contain detailed and entertaining recreations of cockpit procedures in the context of gripping aerial action!
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- personTom Clancy
- content_pasteUsually credited as being the author who created the "techno - thriller" genre. He certainly played a major part in it's development by taking traditional "thriller-espionage" genre and added much more technical accuracy and procedural information.
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- personLt. Charles Cook
- content_pasteLt. Charles H. Cook flew a B-24D named "Cookie" with the 90th Bombardment Group in the southwest Pacific in 1942-1943. At that time, Allied forces were greatly outnumbered, and Japanese invasion of New Guinea and Australia was a very real threat. Bruce Irving has interviewed Charlie Cook and composed this valuable record of his aviation career. The entire article is also available for free download here. | Charles H. Cook passed away on on Saturday January 20th, 2007. He is missed by his friends and family.
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- personClaire Cooper
- content_pasteClaire has a Technical Illustration background and has been in the industry for over 3 years. Before joining Wayward, Claire was an artist for Psygnosis in Stroud and worked on G-Police, G-PoliceII Weapons of Justice and Special Forces. This involved high and low detail modelling for ingame graphics and marketing Prior to that Claire worked for Rage in Birmingham on Jonah Lomu Rugby. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personEd Correia
- content_pasteHead of Partners at ORBX
- personSergio Costa
- content_pasteSérgio has been a flight simulation enthusiast for nearly 25 years. His passion with helicopters developed during MSFS 2000 when he discovered the complexity of these aircraft and the challenge it was to control them. Since then he has been primarily a helicopter flight simmer, trying his best not to crash and kill all his virtual passengers. Sérgio is HeliSimmer's editor and writer and one of the Three Grumpy Simmers, a YouTube series and Podcast produced together with YouTubers Bel Geode and NovaWing24, obviously dedicated to flight simulation.
- personHarold Coyle
- content_pasteA graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, he spent 14 years on active duty with the US Army ranging from Tank Platoon leader to operations officer in Korea.
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- personDan Crenshaw
- content_pasteDan Crenshaw, prolific flight sim journalist at www.simq.com, made a generous donation of classic flight sims to the Flight Sim Museum Collection at Christmas 2001. Thank you Dan!
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- personMichael Crichton
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M.D. by profession, his speculative fiction works were thoroughly based on science, and enriched popular culture with the movie adaptations. - tagR.I.P.Author
- personAndrew Crowley
- content_pasteAndy has a B.Eng. Computer and Microelectronic Systems, and an M.Sc. in Music Technology. He joined Psygnosis Ltd in 1994. His experience includes PlayStation, DOS & Win95 DirectSound Sound Drivers used in a variety of games including: Assault Rigs, Wipe-out, Wipe-out 2097, G-Police, Overboard & Nations. Andy was also involved in the Capcom DarkStalkers/Vampire PlayStation conversion. Andy was key to many of Psygnosis' OEM deals, being Involved in the conversion of Destruction Derby to Diamond Edge card, G-Police Win95 conversion, including Direct3D, DirectInput, DirectSound, and Aureal A3D version. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personMario D'Onofrio
- content_pasteMario Joined Psygnosis Ltd in 1994 after completing a BSc in Mathematics and an MSc in Computing at Imperial College, London. In his time at Psygnosis he has worked on all aspects of game development, choosing to specialise in the field of graphics and visualisation. He has worked on Playstation, PC DOS and Win95 platforms. He had major contributions to Assault Rigs, G-Police and Special Forces. His work on these projects has been used on other Psygnosis products including Overboard! and G-Police 2, and some recent techniques have been used on new Playstation software . Over the last year he has been responsible for developing a new PC 3D engine for the Stroud studio for Special Forces using many new techniques to make best use of new and upcoming 3D cards and directX. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personGraham Davis
- content_pasteAfter completing an honours degree is Systems Analysis Graham spent 2 years at Oracle Corp as database analyst designer. He then founded Dental Systems Design (DSD) and, with a team of 10 developed Britain's first Windows based Dental Practice Clinical and administration system. DSD was sold to Denplan Ltd in 1996 and is Britain s best selling Dental System. Graham then joined Psygnosis as Senior Producer on G-Police. He then became Head producer of the Stroud Studio and had involvement in the following internal and external games: G-Police, Overboard!, Nations Fighter Command, Panzer Elite, Rollcage, G-Police II Weapons of Justice, Special Forces. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personDavid Eckert
- content_pasteCommercial work for Just Flight, Lago and Abacus, including 'Battle of Britain Memorial Flight'.
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- personSteve Eschweiler
- content_paste"I have a passion for 3D Game Development and creating compelling user experiences. I love learning new things and I enjoy finding elegent solutions to complex software engineering problems. There's never been a challenge I haven't been able to overcome and I know from experience that there's nothing I can't do. I am able to work independently as well as with a team and am able to take direction as required to get the job done."
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- personFrederick Forsyth
- content_pasteFrederick Forsyth is the reknowned author of "The Day of the Jackal". He is totally capable of matching the technical depth of Clancy and cohorts without sacrificing the trademark Forsyth pace.
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- personFrances Gabrewski
- content_pasteFrancis "Gabby" Gabreski had 28 victories in Europe and then 4 1/2 more in Korea during the 1950's.
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- personMark Garrison
- content_pasteAuthor of "Guts 'N Gunships: What It Was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam".
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- personPaul Godfrey
- content_paste980 hours in the RAF's Harriers.
- personJohn Golding
- content_pasteAfter completing a degree in 3D Design - Industrial Design John worked for a short period for Lego, on a freelance basis, producing concepts for new products. He then joined Virtuality Entertainment Ltd..in 1994 as a Graphic Artist working on Virtual Reality games and applications, for customers such as Ford and Pepsi, until the company went into administration in 1997. Since then he has undertaken a Lead Artist role at Psygnosis Stroud working on the PC project `Special Forces` which involved planning and directing motion capture sessions, character modelling and general scheduling of the art content. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personJos Grupping
- content_pasteDespite professing to be not a serious gamer Jos has constructed a wonderful tribute to the Microsoft Flight Simulator series at History of Flight Simulator.
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- personKen Hall
- content_pasteKen studied mechanical engineering and fine arts, specialising in sculpture, in Canada where he ran his own DTP business before moving to Britain and the games industry in 1994. Prior to joining Wayward, Ken was lead artist/animator on Rosco McQueen for ARC Developments and Slippery Snake Studio (when they took over the project). Before that, he worked on J.R Hartley's Fly-Fishing and Waterworld. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personJames Hallows
- content_pasteAuthor of the Thrustmaster HOTAS Cougar Programming Software ca. 2001.
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- personDavid Harris
- content_pasteWhile completing a Two year diploma course in Computer Generated Imagery at Dublin's Ballyfermot Senior College, David worked, part time for a Multimedia Software company in Dublin named Cellmedia where he worked on developing educational software for undergraduate medical students at University College Dublin. After finishing college he went to work for another Multimedia company, this time a consultants: RMC Design+Multimedia Consultants, where he worked on a number of short projects for various clients. .Shortly after this, David joined Psygnosis in Stroud where he worked for a year and a half on 'Special Forces' before coming to Wayward Design. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personCajun Hawk
- content_pasteIn 1998 Cajun Hawk was one of the very first people to show an interest in my Flight Sim Museum, sending me images of LHX Attack Chopper and a scan of the Advanced Tactical Fighters box, both of which are still in the museum.
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- personDudley Henriques
- content_pasteDudley Henriques has flown high performance planes for over forty years, including at least seventy different types of airplanes from experimental and prototypes to and fighters, both jet and propeller.
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- personRichard Herman
- content_pasteHerman's books populate the world with flawed (real) characters and flawed (real) planes. The stories often emphasise the perspective of the C.O. who has to motivate those characters and develop tactics for difficult tasks.
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- personLen Hjalmarson
- content_paste"Len Hjalmarson was one of the co-founders of www.combatsim.com, which was the one of the first serious and comprehensive websites that focussed on combat flight sims. He has established himself as one of the few journalists who specialised in writing about combat flight sims and had a massive output with an accessible and thorough style. In 2004 Len moved into developing commercial addons for combat sims - www.combatplanes.ca. Len has focussed his passion into other areas in recent years. Flight sim fans will always remember his contributions to our hobby with gratitude.
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- personIain Howe
- content_pasteComing from an IT background, Iain previously worked for 21st Century Entertainment Ltd where he was latterly their Senior Producer, and Software Manager co-ordinating up to four external projects at any one time, including Slam Tilt, Pinball Construction Kit and Synnergist. Since November 1997 Iain has been part of Wayward Design, Producing, Designing and Researching for "The Mighty Eighth" and fleshing out Concepts for future products. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personJames Huston
- content_pasteTop Gun graduate James Huston flew F-14's off the USS Nimitz and worked as a Naval Flight Officer before becoming a lawyer and a writer.
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- personKeith Inglis
- content_pasteMy uncle Keith Inglis was an armourer at Kimpo Airbase during the Korean War. | R.I.P. 2019
- personBruce Irving
- content_pasteChino's professional background in Optical Science and Engineering neatly complements his aviation enthusiasms. He has written books on space travel and contributed extensively to the Museum content.
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- personGreg Jones
- content_pasteUK Development Manager at ORBX
- personChris Keegan
- content_pasteChris has worked in the industry since 1995. Prior to joining Wayward, he was senior programmer at Walrond Software Research where he worked with Andrew Walrond on all aspects of product technology development. He has extensive experience of networking, 3D graphics, applications and tools development, including 3D Studio MAX plugins. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personScott Malensek
- content_pasteFrom Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to his military and political interests, he is also an avid aviculturalist. He has worked all over the United States, but still lives in the Cleveland area. His first novel is Black Rain for Christmas.
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- personDavid Marshall
- content_pasteDavid Marshall was one of the chief boffins at DI and his experience is indicative of the real world aviation expertise embedded in their products.
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- personAustin Meyer
- content_pasteCreator and developer of X-Plane, which from the very beginning of the series had the best modelling of aerodynamic forces available in a consumer flight sim.
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- personSteve Pisanos
- content_pasteSteve Pisanos presentation on how he emigrated to the US prior to WWII, developed a passion for flying, and became a double ace fighter pilot.
- personDavid Poyer
- content_pastePoyer writes great action novels with an authentic feel and displaying a keen insight into human character. I particularly enjoy reading his submarine adventures whilst in the bath, it adds to the immersion! David Poyer graduated from the US naval academy in 1971. He then served on various Destroyers and Amphibious ships and worked at the Surface Warfare Development Group in Virginia.
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- personCharles Rawlins
- content_pasteCharles Rawlins is an award winning Animator who has been in the industry since 1997 working for a number of companies most recently on CodeMasters Prince Nasseem Boxing. In addition to Animation skills he has also provided models and sets for work shown on S4C, BBC and Channel 4. - courtesy of Hasbro
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- personTim Ray
- content_pasteStrike Commander - Documentation, Map design and layout, Mission design, Vehicle, weapon and plane data.
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- personBob Roberts
- content_pasteI have known Bob since the Flight Sim Museum opened as MiGMan's Combat Diary in October 1998. He encouraged me from the very beginning and made some of the earliest contributions to the Flight Sim Museum.
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- personDominic Robinson
- content_pasteDominic has been in the industry since 1986, working at Hewson Consultants, Graftgold, Vektor Grafix, MicroProse and most recently Psygnosis (Head of Software Engineering). Dominic has lead the development of or developed engine technology for the following products: Uridium (Sinclair Spectrum), Zynaps (Spectrum), Anarchy (Spectrum), Flying Shark (Spectrum), Rainbow Islands (AtariST, Amiga), Simulcra (AtariST, Amiga), Space Shuttle Simulator (PC, AtariST, Amiga), Killing Cloud (PC, AtariST, Amiga), Death or Glory (PC, AtariST, Amiga), B17 (PC, AtariST, Amiga), Assault Rigs (PC, PlayStation), G-Police (PC, PlayStation), Overboard (PC, PlayStation. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personAttila Roth
- content_pasteAttila has been involved in the games industry for over six years, since he started work for Novotrade Software International in Budapest. In his two years with Novotrade, Attila worked on three products, Peter Pan, Around the World in 80 days and Jungle book. After a short interlude working on animation's for Hungarian TV, Attila was back in games, this time working for Arc Developments in Walsall, where he worked on Johnny Bazookatone, Fly Fishing by J.R. Hartley and 4-4-2 Soccer. Leaving Arc developments in October '96 Attila joined Bristol based Walrond Software Research Ltd where he worked on graphics for various projects. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personBob Schroeder
- content_pasteMiGMan thanks Wacky Wally, a.k.a. Bob Schroeder of Florida USA, for his generous donation of flight Sims to the Flight Sim Museum in January 2008.
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- personMark Shamblin
- content_pasteCo-founder of Wings Simulations, his first game was published in 1987, but his first real hit was in 1989 with X-Out, which sold in excess of 120,000 copies in Europe.
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- personJohn Shave
- content_pasteJohn obtained a BSc Hons in Mathematics and Computer Science. He started working the industry with Psygnosis at Stroud in March 1996 where he stayed until leaving to join Wayward. At Psygnosis John worked on the WW2 flight Sim project; Nations Fighter Command during which his primary responsibilities were for the physics models and the collision / damage code. - courtesy of Hasbro. 2000
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- personRobert Shaw
- content_pasteRobert L. Shaw holds a masters degree in aeronautical engineering and spent 14 years in U.S. Navy fighter aviation. He flew over 4,000 hours, mostly in the F-4 and F-14. He is currently in the U.S. Naval Reserve and is a flight instructor, airline pilot and consulting engineer.
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- personDamon Slye
- content_pasteA co-founder of Dynamix and the original developer of their 3-D technology, 3Space.
- personMike Spick
- content_pasteMike Spick is one of the most respected and prolific writers on military aviation. I find his work enjoyable and informative.
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- personRobert Sternfels
- content_pasteHighly decorated WWII combat pilot Robert Sternfels provides a first hand account of piloting his B-24 Sandman bomber in a raid on oil refineries in Ploesti that was one of the single most devastating raids against the Nazi war effort.
- personKenji Takeda
- content_pasteLecturer in the Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics Research Group in the School of Engineering Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK.
- personRoss Thody
- content_pasteRoss completed a diploma in Software Engineering, and began work as a junior designer at Psygnosis. After completing Assault Rigs on the PlayStation and PC, Ross was promoted to the lead designer. He then went on to design G-Police. During the development of G-Police he was promoted to producer and continued to work on G-Police until it's completion. He then established the design and planning stages for G-Police 2. Following this, he took on the production of two projects, Tanuki and Special Forces. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personIain Thody
- content_pasteIain joins us from Psygnosis Stroud. Trained as a graphic Designer, Iain joined Psygnosis in 1997 and specialised in low poly in-game shapes in G-Police. Iain's formal design background soon began to show in the style set he created for many of the G-Police craft. This lead to him becoming the style set lead on G-Police II Weapons of Justice. Many of the startling graphical improvements present in GP2 are down to Iain's eye for style, form and function. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personAndy Thomason
- content_pasteAndy Thomason is an experienced high and low level software developer. He previously worked for Psygnosis in Stroud where he was a member of the technology group under Dominic Robinson. Prior to that he worked on a large number of projects including graphics engines, video compression and networked publishing systems. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personBarrett Tillman
- content_pasteHis books are gripping reads and abound in "Easter Eggs" for military flight sim nuts. They also put the flying squarely into context as part of larger operations and strategic / tactical goals. They get my highest endorsement.
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- personRay Tobey
- content_pasteProgrammer of 'Skyfox' - an absolute classic game featuring 'flight' on the Apple ][.
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- personMark Vanhoenacker
- content_pasteMark Vanhoenacker is a Belgian-American airline pilot and author. He is a Boeing 787 pilot with British Airways and is also frequent contributor for the New York Times, Slate and the Financial Times with a focus on aviation. (Wikipedia)
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- personJohn Venema
- content_pasteFounder / Director at ORBX
- personAndrew Walrond
- content_pasteAndrew has been in the industry since 1990, working at Vektor Grafix, MicroProse, Psygnosis and Revolution Software (Development Manager) before founding Walrond Software Research in 1995. Andrew has been involved with the following published products : Shuttle Simulator (Amiga), B17 (PC, Amiga), The Legacy (PC), Fields Of Glory (PC), Beneath a Steel Sky (Amiga, PC), Broken Sword (PC). He has recently developed the physics and flight model engines for The Mighty Eighth. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personJoe Weber
- content_pasteA former Marine pilot who writes gripping Air Combat Novels. His books always have a strong emphasis on aerial action and Joe's background allows him to flesh out the details.
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- personJ. D. Wetterling
- content_pasteFlew 268 combat missions in an F-100 in Vietnam and was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses, fourteen Air Medals, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He was Top Gun in every fighter squadron in which he served in the USAF.
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- personDave Whiteside
- content_pasteDave Whiteside has had a long association with developer / publisher Rowan, and been involved with some of the absolute classics of air combat simulation.
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- personGavin Whitlock
- content_pasteGavin joins us from Psygnosis' Stroud studio. He has worked on Assault Rigs, G-Police, and is Lead Programmer on G-Police II Weapons of Justice. Gavin also headed up the Japanese conversion of G-Police. - courtesy of Hasbro, 2000
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- personJeff Wilson
- content_pasteAn industry veteran from FS2 to JF4.
- personScott Wolf
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Prolific journalist and steadfast enthusiast for flight simulation. - tagR.I.P.Journalist
- personSteve Wozniak
- content_pasteCofounder of Apple Computers, Wozniak has a keen understanding of the differences between 'A.I.' and human intelligence.
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- personChuck Yeager
- content_pasteOne of the most well known Fighter Aces, Yeager flew and fought in WWII,. Korea and the Vietnam War.
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- personMiGMan
- content_pasteFounder and curator of the Flight Sim Museum.
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