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Rivet Joint! ...eh? From the nation which built the Devastator, Hellcat and Thunder Warrior. Why are we buying aircraft with such rubbish names?
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How about the
Eneh Mk1. Named after Nimrods Spouse
Any add ons could go in the Eneh pod.. That should get things moving
Eneh Mk1. Named after Nimrods Spouse
Any add ons could go in the Eneh pod.. That should get things moving
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See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_RC-135 if you want to see some of the funky names the US has come up with variants of the KC135 over the years.
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I'm not fond of the designation Lightning 2 particularly - hence on this site at least Dave is popular. For an aircraft that hovers, sticking to a bird of prey is good but all the hovering ones (Kestrel, Harrier and Osprey) have already been used.
Matching decent names to aircraft does seem to be tricky, whilst I like the nod to FAA history the name Avenger for the King Airs at Culdrose is somewhat at odds with the role.
For RC-135 perhaps some sort of vulture would have been appropriate...
Matching decent names to aircraft does seem to be tricky, whilst I like the nod to FAA history the name Avenger for the King Airs at Culdrose is somewhat at odds with the role.
For RC-135 perhaps some sort of vulture would have been appropriate...
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In the good old days, they would have come up with something much more appropriate. Consider for example the Beardmore Inflexible:
Wikipedia: Beardmore Inflexible - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia: Beardmore Inflexible - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Originally Posted by White Ovies
For an aircraft that hovers, sticking to a bird of prey is good but all the hovering ones (Kestrel, Harrier and Osprey) have already been used.
. Trouble is the Americans call buzzards 'hawks' so it would get quite confusing; in the States a 'buzzard' is a vulture....
I was always puzzled by the Canadians' choice of the name Cormorant for their Merlin variant, given that the bird spends a lot of its time diving underwater - not a practice to be recommended in a helicopter 
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Martinsyde Buzzard, would have replaced the Camel/SE5A and others in 1919 had the war continued.
Camel now that name must have had the Germans laughing fit to bust, maybe that was when it sneaked in and shot them down thereby giving them the hump..
Then you had it's stable mate the Salamander a slippy creature for ground attack.
Cuckoo laying it's eggs in other peoples nests.
Sopwith seems to have had it's share of naff names.
The worst are when the designers haven't a clue and just add a two. i.e Thunderbolt 2.
Camel now that name must have had the Germans laughing fit to bust, maybe that was when it sneaked in and shot them down thereby giving them the hump..
Then you had it's stable mate the Salamander a slippy creature for ground attack.
Cuckoo laying it's eggs in other peoples nests.
Sopwith seems to have had it's share of naff names.
The worst are when the designers haven't a clue and just add a two. i.e Thunderbolt 2.
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Bingo ... the Chipmunk was also used in Cyprus on the Front Line. In fact WG846 of the BBMF served both in Crprus and Gatow 
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