I figured it out! NickN's claim to fame... Geeze, took me too long...

[jordanal 70]

Funny thing just happened to me, when listing the AVSIM library for Nick Needham's "Nick's AI Jet Exhaust affects", to make sure there wasn't a more recent version in the library, when I came across "Nick's Sun Affects" and all his other affects files uploaded over the years, many of which I am very familair with and have used over the past couple of versions of FS.And, as I was looking at the sun affects jpg, I recalled NickN (of hardware fame in this forum, simviation, and GEX-forum) talking about his god-rays sun in a few other threads.Then someone must have hit me over the head, becuase it finally dawned on me that Nick Needham of the affects-files fame is NickN of our hardware-support fame.Well duh, it took me long enough, LOL...

[GHarrall 494]

and of GEX 'nhanced' fame............

[Guest Nick_N]

 

 

 

 

[jordanal 70]

Hey Nick, sorry it took me sooo long to put two-and-two together. Geez, NASA too huh? Sounds like you've had a pretty long history in many diferrent parts of aviation. Guess we'll just have to start searching the web for pictures from before you became a "respectable citizen", LOL... Gotta be proof somewhere out there! ;)

[Guest Nick_N]

I worked under a sub contractor, as most of us did. I was only serious when I had to be. We were overworked and underpaid and I was also desperately trying to complete my 2nd PhD at the time so caffeine and cigarettes was the diet of choice. We did not have things like red bull back then. BTW.. the above was a joke, but I did hear a rumor along those lines and back then those rumors were usually based in some fact..LOL Although we did pull some wild stunts to try and blow off steam they were always after hours and usually far from the labs

[Mace 1,904]

>>Well duh, it took me long enough, LOL...>>...he also did "Massive Crash", crash fx files.I always thought that he should have done an installer for Massive Crash that had this big outsized voice saying "MMMMASSIVE CRASH!!" with a splash screen...RhettFS box: E8500 (@ 3.16 ghz), AC Freezer 7 Pro, ASUS P5E3 Premium, BFG 8800GTX 756 (nVidia 169 WHQL), 4gb DDR3 1600 Patriot Cas7 7-7-7-20 (2T), PC Power 750, WD 150gb 10000rpm Raptor, Seagate 500gb, Silverstone TJ09 case, Vista Ultimate 64ASX Client: AMD 3700+ (@ 2.6 ghz), 7800GT

[jordanal 70]

Well, since this is obviously an OT thread anyway, I'm going to post this here because I've been counting it down for sometime now anyway.My 1000th AVSIM Post![/font size]Been counting "bottles of beer on the wall" since March 10, 2002 (six years - 2 months - 23 days)on this new AVSIM forum, LOL!How many remember the first AVSIM forum?

[Guest Nick_N]

>...he also did "Massive Crash", crash fx filesbecause i was just learning MSFS code, I had some help with the first version of Massive Crash and that turned out to be a disaster (no pun intended) but that

[Guest Nick_N]

Its all off topiccongrats!

[Mace 1,904]

I remember olde AVSIMe. But barely. It seems like I went straight from Mike Marando's Flight Sim Uploads, to AVSIM. Does that sound right?RhettFS box: E8500 (@ 3.16 ghz), AC Freezer 7 Pro, ASUS P5E3 Premium, BFG 8800GTX 756 (nVidia 169 WHQL), 4gb DDR3 1600 Patriot Cas7 7-7-7-20 (2T), PC Power 750, WD 150gb 10000rpm Raptor, Seagate 500gb, Silverstone TJ09 case, Vista Ultimate 64ASX Client: AMD 3700+ (@ 2.6 ghz), 7800GT