Name the JSF
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Looking over your shoulder
Age: 50
Posts: 203
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Well we have the Typhoon so how about Tempest?
I would have suggested hurricane but the next aircraft that takes on that name had better be bloody special.
I would have suggested hurricane but the next aircraft that takes on that name had better be bloody special.
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: St Andrews
Posts: 18
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Name the JSF
Originally Posted by brickhistory
How about 'Camel?' It was a famous a/c, the namesake does live in the environment where the JSF is most likely to employ for the forseeable future...
It must be the Prescott (as suggested earlier)
Why?
1. It costs far more than it is worth.
2. Nobody wants it in their backyard (hence the reason it is going to Lossie).
3. It does the work of 2 Jags.
4. It's ugly.
5. It's overweight.
6. It's very noisy to little efect.
Simple
Shadwell
Why?
1. It costs far more than it is worth.
2. Nobody wants it in their backyard (hence the reason it is going to Lossie).
3. It does the work of 2 Jags.
4. It's ugly.
5. It's overweight.
6. It's very noisy to little efect.
Simple
Shadwell
Join Date: May 2006
Location: 2 m South of Radstock VRP
Posts: 2,042
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Why bother with a name? The Air Force never saw their way clear to giving the VC10 a name and it's probably a bit late now. Anyway, if we did call it the Dave, the Media and the MoD PR rags would forever call it the JSF F-35 Dave!
Off thread but this has put me on one of my pet hobbyhorses now. With American aircraft, why do they persist on using the US Service Type designator AND the name? (eg C-130 Hercules, F-18 Hornet etc). A C-130 is a Hercules! why drag it out?
Off thread but this has put me on one of my pet hobbyhorses now. With American aircraft, why do they persist on using the US Service Type designator AND the name? (eg C-130 Hercules, F-18 Hornet etc). A C-130 is a Hercules! why drag it out?
Join Date: May 2006
Location: 2 m South of Radstock VRP
Posts: 2,042
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Just a thought: why not the F-35 Avtur? That's no good though because it will confuse the Air Force when they fly them from carriers.
I know, lets enter into the modern spirit of operational safety and make the name a simple fuelling reminder. The Land A/C could be the Avtur and the Naval one the Avcat. No! that's no good either ; Avcat would have to wait until they build the F-44.
Disregard all previous.
I know, lets enter into the modern spirit of operational safety and make the name a simple fuelling reminder. The Land A/C could be the Avtur and the Naval one the Avcat. No! that's no good either ; Avcat would have to wait until they build the F-44.
Disregard all previous.
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Temporarily missing from the Joe Louis Arena
Posts: 2,131
Received 27 Likes
on
16 Posts
Originally Posted by GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU
Just a thought: why not the F-35 Avtur? That's no good though because it will confuse the Air Force when they fly them from carriers.
I know, lets enter into the modern spirit of operational safety and make the name a simple fuelling reminder. The Land A/C could be the Avtur and the Naval one the Avcat. No! that's no good either ; Avcat would have to wait until they build the F-44.
Disregard all previous.
I know, lets enter into the modern spirit of operational safety and make the name a simple fuelling reminder. The Land A/C could be the Avtur and the Naval one the Avcat. No! that's no good either ; Avcat would have to wait until they build the F-44.
Disregard all previous.
THS - DFG West Moors veteran and all round fuels-bore.
Join Date: May 2006
Location: 2 m South of Radstock VRP
Posts: 2,042
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by The Helpful Stacker
The RAF doesn't use F35 Avtur, it uses F34 Avtur FSII. F35, nasty stuff, no lubricity agent, microbiological growth inhibitor or most importantly fuel system icing inhibitor.
THS - DFG West Moors veteran and all round fuels-bore.
THS - DFG West Moors veteran and all round fuels-bore.
GBZ
