Wolkenbruch

Wolkenbruch (German, "Cloudburst") spent his childhood in small-town Pennsylvania dreaming of soaring through the skies, and signed up to join the UCAS airforce at the tender age of 18. He got his chops flying reconnaissance and border patrols around UCAS western and southern peripheries, and word on the street has it that he saw covert action in Central Europe during the troubles there. With economic constraints forcing the UCAS airforce into stagnation and even clawbacks to new developments, Wolkenbruch took early retirement to become a test-pilot for experimental aircraft and aerospace vehicles with Boeing. Despite his long and unblemished careers there and with the UCAS, Boeing declined to renew his position when they closed their Auburn plant, Auburn being his last posting. The Auburn rumour-mill has cranked out a story that Wolkenbruch's Boeing days were numbered after he pissed off a senior corporate exec during a prototype demo flight. Apparently Wolkenbruch, ever the egoist, fancied the exec's wife, who happened to be watching the demo from the control tower while her husband stood outside on the tarmac. Wolkenbruch thought it might impress her if he buzzed the tarmac close enough to literally blow the clothes off the exec, or so the story goes. Regardless of the tale's truth, it's clear that Wolkenbruch has a massive taste for reckless feats of virtuosity, not to mention a penchant for womanizing. These days, the aging hotshot sells his formidable talents to the highest bidder, though he's been known to cut his price a bit for the chance to fly sufficiently rare aircraft, or on jobs calling for exceptionally rare aerial gymnastics. Of course, he's also know to manufacture excuses for hotshot stunts, even when the job doesn't call for them.