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CBris

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  1. I seem to recall using cellphones to take selfies can damage your health. So... this is me aka Eagleskinner and/or even One-Eye. more after the pic. Chris Brisland is how I was knitted a little over 60 years back and I still haven't come unravelled yet - although judging by the pic, there's a few marbles adrift somewhere I've been on pause for a couple of years, both FS'ing and skinning, but I'm back now so here's the low-down on li'l 'ole me. I've been simming since Bruce Artwick wore flared jeans (hmmm, so did I, come to think of it... and flowery... no, we shan't go down that road of sartorial sinning right now...) and in the real world I was a heli tech with the Brit army until I left and went to Airbus. At the moment I could say I am a rocket scientist, considering my recent time at Airbus Defence and Space working on the Ariane 5 satellite launch system. It's a bit of a job for paranoiacs though - imagine: you're not even allowed to send bio hazardous risk material up there - ET might sniff our glue and decide to sue... Eagleskinner? Well, once I got into doing repaints in FS 8 and 9 I eventually discovered a joyous little plane called the Christen Eagle that the guys at Long Island Classics had created. The Eagle became my most skinned aircraft even before IRIS came up with there Eagle. Some of my paints are still active on the Avsim library, but I think I still have a hundred or more hidden somewhere in the 10 terror bytes of hard drives, WD cloud drives, WD passport and so on. The original Eagleskinner site closed down y few years back but I might resurrect the site if I ever get back into painting (and I do mean if - arthritis and nadged wrist are slowing the pace down a bit these days. One-Eye? Ah. Now there be a tale not for the faint hearted! way back in the day, there was a certain cult growth around a small airfield in the Pacific Northwest. KEWL - Emma Field. I the meantime I think Emma is a grown up lady and it wouldn't surprise me, if Matthias Kok was a granddad already. Anyway, KEWL was populated by a whole bunch of enthusiasts and the field developed a kind of life of it's own. Tales were spun and adventures flown. Fly-ins were frequent and I even managed to win the Emma Fly in time trial in the early naughties with barely a very few seconds off the planned touchdown time. Hah! Tales and the like - that's One-Eye to the core - as in "Whun I was in the war" or Whun I was...." this that or the other. Anyway, Old One-Eye, being fictional, can be anything he wants. He's the exception to prove the rule. You know the saying “You can have old pilots and bold pilots, but can’t have old, bold pilots!†Well the pilot of callsign "November One India" is that impossible pilot, the exception to the rule, the nut who will be seen flying upside down between the towers of Tower Bridge in London on his ninetieth birthday... Oh, he has a friend and trusted sidekick too. Limp. One-Eye and Limp are not some obscure reference to a smutty joke (well, not nececelery) but rather an "Odd Couple" who live in a strange symbiosis of "Old and Bold" pilot (That's One-Eye) and his friend, the perfectionist mechanic (That would be Limp, as it happens...) More of them can be read (well hidden) around the web. Real picture? Oh, go on then: Enjoy!
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