Slip Stream

"The controls are incredibly sensitive, so you have to have a steady hand to fly a fighter. It doesn't hurt if you have a streak of daredevil in you, too."

SLIPSTREAM was a video-game whiz and computer hacker until he discovered flying. He joined the Jr. Civil Air Patrol while a teenager and eventually got his Air Force commission through the R.O.T.C. He finished at the top of his class in flight school where his knowledge of computers and his lightning reflexes gave him a keen competitive edge. An aircraft with computer assisted control surfaces can do things that are impossible for a conventional plane. (Flat turns without banking, flight axis shift and horizontal rolls.) The controls are incredibly sensitive, the slightest tremor being translated into drastic movement. It takes a light touch to fly a ship like that and Slipstream has the touch, the eye, the brain and the guts to make that aircraft do exactly what he wants. He speaks Armenian, Greek and French, plays a mean game of table tennis, and is known in the Pit as an unrepentant joker and mimic.

Canonical/Pre-MUX/Theme History:
Slipstream joined the Joes in 1986.

OOC Notes
On the MUX, Slipstream has been promoted to Captain.

2001

 * Khan and Snake-Eyes

Players
Slipstream is currently played by horsetuna.