Err - is the description "****ehawk" some reverse RAF ironic humour that I have never previously encountered, or is it another sad example of PPRuNe "ironic humour" (e.g. Land Rover consistently "corrected" to "Trabant"?). - Trim Stab
It may very well be, but it is also the latter day adoption of a generic expression used by the Royal Navy since time immemorial to describe any seabird sighted - even when its precise variety is known!
- as well as by the Army, allegedly in relation to experience with marauding kites in the days of the Raj.
Jack