Originally Posted by
El Bunto
Completely tangential and pedantic but I don't understand why people omit the hyphen and write the likes of B52 and F35. They don't randomly add hyphens to make 7-3-7 or A-320 so why omit them from other designations?
I suppose one possible comeback is 'I was using the ICAO type codes'.
But note that the ICAO decode for A332, for example, is "Airbus A-332-200".
Other types suffering from ICAO hyphen-rash include the "BAe-146" and most of Aerospatiale's helicopters.