"Waves Demo Club Card"
Have been following IL2 development back then for over a year after seeing the very first screenshots in a games mag.
This is one of those =)
I think back then Il2 was supposed to be published not by UBI, but Blue Byte.
Oleg regularily posted on the UBI forums and was open to Q&A's, good times.
Wondered if IL2 had birds coming from the trees like in Red Baron 3D and smoke on the runway upon landing and take off. Talk about priorities, lol. Back then it was still and only about the IL2 as a flyable.
Then the demo came out, and with it this darn mission where you had to hunt that 88 in the storm. Taking of the P39 required a whole new level of expertise. Never looked back from that day on.