AN INTERVIEW WITH TRYGGVE GRAN

I'm a Norwegian, and in that small country my grandfather was a respected man and had many friends. One of them was the aviation pioneer and polar explorer Tryggve Gran.

One day my grandparents announced that Tryggve Gran would come to pay us a visit.

I might have been seven at the time, and I had read all the books I could find about airplanes and flying. Tryggve Gran had flown Spads and Sopwith Camels in WW1 and knew all that was worth knowing about airplanes.

My grandmother knew how eager I was to meet mr Gran, and wanted to prevent me from interfering too much, so she said: "You can sit there with them and listen,but you mustn't talk too much or ask him a lot of questions. You must remember it is your grandfather he has come to see, not you!"

When he arrived, Tryggve Gran looked a strict, almost angry old man. And keeping in mind what my grandma had said, I dared not say a single word. The two grown-ups talked for an hour or two about politics and organization work of which I understood precious little.

So when mr Gran left, I sat there, sad and disappointed.

But times have changed. Today there are boundless amounts of information available to everyone, and I can find the answers to the questions I didn't dare to ask.

I'm going to do it here, in the form of a fictional interview with mr Gran, - the interview I wasn't allowed to make as a child.

Breaking News from our [TOP SECRET] spy plane.
Recent photos have confirmed my suspicions that the (thought to be extinct) Dark Pilots were behind the "Troll" that we have all been hearing about. Our recently returned pilot B Strachan was actually being held captive in an underground facility near the bridge, where he narrowly escaped what I have dubbed the "Troll-Bot" which captured he and his aircraft shortly after he became the first pilot in Dogfight history to reach the 1 Million Point Mark.



He has assured us that he destroyed the "Troll-Bot" during his valiant escape from the underground lair, but only time will tell whether or not our nemesis is gone forever.



After making many passes along the bridge with no sign of the mechanical beast, we can only hope that B was successful in his efforts to rid us all of this terrible device.

Three cheers for B Strachan! "HIP HIP HOORAY!" "HIP HIP HOORAY!" "HIP HIP HOORAY!"

lol go B Strachen.

great story guys iam just catching up been away for a couple of days
very funny

Wow wish I could do what you guys are doing.

It's super easy hamers. For example I hate writing and I don't think I'm very good, but for some reason these thing keep coming to me. I haven't actually written anything besides short hand notes and log book entries since 5th grade. Just make stuff up lol

lol u guys are funny thnx see u in the sky's .

I cant believe you guys didnt know more about the "bots of tower bridge" they are very grumpy at no being allowed to play dogfight (their fingers are too big) as a protest they kidnap pilots to get media exposure. I know this is fact, I commute past tower bridge on a daily basis and often see a bot there giving me "the bird" I say give em' hell!

The damned troll screws up my flying when I try to make people ram into the bridge! He knocks my plane into the ground!

I must admit the trolls are bad but the unicorns are evil I tell you!!7

Speaking of which
Sputnik made small history yesterday by breaking his record of card stacking
He broke his record of 21.1 inches


The tower was 30 inches high And 20 inches wide
Took half an hour to build and 14 attempts to keep it together
more to come as Sputnik try's to reach new highs

[e]Sputnik wrote: The tower was 30 inches high And 20 inches wide
... as Sputnik try's to reach new highs

So the card towers are not just card towers, they are also models for your future spaceplane? -to pay honour to your Russian name "satelite" perhaps?

Congratz sput and I am,back

nice shootin bomber you got wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better since last time (even though u were already beast anyways)

Thx and who was that cr??? Person.

dunno

Thnx bomer
Veidar its something like that I'm currently building one

sput

good job bro, have you considered using regular playing cards

also have you tried building flat roofed walmart type multi storied structures, they can be alotta fun too

I was out of school for about a year when I was 8 with a head injury

This is the only thing that kept me from dying of boredom

Congrats on black flag, Calvin the awesome for getting 3rd and 2 nd on the contest

B Strachan wrote: Congrats on black flag, Calvin the awesome for getting 3rd and 2 nd on the contest

And congrats to caption Ryan on first!

Thanks Brian!

Grr.... He beat me.....

Lol

BREAKING NEWS:new sqaudron may be coming in near future

? You mean Tigersharks? Did you ask Z about it?

I'll try Singh

Yesterday our super ace wamp changed his name back to what it was after kicking my sry butt. Therefor there is only one no name left in the game "x" the first and orignal one.

Reported by:bomber

bomer1 wrote: super ace wamp changed his name back

That's really good news!

I cannot help but feeling that to choose an invisible or almost so name is to a certain degree cheating. That top player Wamp now feels the same and acts accordingly is very encouraging indeed!

Welcome back WAMP! I look forward to being killed by you the next time we meet in the skies!

To tell u the truth no name didnt matter that much, he kicked my @$$ either way.I told him that and he said he will change it back for me. good friend.

Yeah, I noticed that! Great news, huh? Been forever since I got to fight him as him.

Theres still #25. He has one hell of a name.

Wait, Veidar, didnt you join before you could change your name? I thought you had been here almost as long as me?

Yes, the change-name option is relatively recent, - early this spring, or early this year at any rate. I think x was the first no-namer I noticed after Z stopped the ###s, but x may not have changed his name, he may just have chosen x from the start, I don't know.

My first messages in this forum, - at least the oldest I can find, are from Feb 2nd this year. I had been playing intermittantly some time before that, - perhaps since before Christmas. "Long ago" has a different meaning in a society like this!

Veider u and me joined at the same time, its just I never got on forum untill I was a major. I remember fighting u as a noob, u me and baer fought each other since we were aspirants.
And ur right about x chosing that name from beginning.


And I would like to apologize again, because I began this whole invisible name thing, x was killing me so I turned my name invisibke to kill him. Then others started doing it.