Originally Posted by Step
Spam Can is not a term used in North American aviation, other than to respond to UK posts. The can for spam is a very useful item, purposely designed to have usefulness beyond containing the meat. (flat sides).
Not a term used in NA? Maybe not for car-like aeroplanes with appallingly poor handling (that, for the elimination of any doubt, is my definition of Spam Can where aeroplanes are concerned. A and C was very wide of the mark in
his assumption of my definition).
But was it not the Great Chuck Yeager who opined of the first generation US space capsules "in one of those you are not a pilot. You are just Spam in a can"?
So maybe there's another allusion to a certain type of disappointing aeroplane.
Here's another spam can. Many of these were re-built and thus became much better machines:
http://locoyard.files.wordpress.com/...-tangmere1.jpg