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Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:00 am
Dick Phillips asked me to post this for him:
Here is a list of popular names of a wide variety of aircraft. It includes both foreign and U.S. built machines of types ranging from Piper Cubs to C-17s and including helicopters, gliders and drones. The question is, what do all these aircraft names have in common, other than being aircraft of one kind or another?
Ambassador Archer Arrow Aztec
Bear Buccaneer Bronco Blackhawk Badger Baron Bearcat Beaver Blackbird Bobcat Buckeye Buffalo Bulldog
Cub Cardinal Clipper Colt Cavalier Chief Cadet Camel Choctaw Comet Corsair Cougar Crusader
Dolphin Duck Dragon Duke
Eagle
Falcon Flyer
Giant Grizzlie Galaxy
Hurricane Harrier Hawkeye Hawk Heron Hornet Huskie
Islander
Jaguar
Lightning Lancer
Mariner Marlin Marauder Musketeer Mustang
Northstar
Oriole Osprey Otter Owl
Panther Predator Phantom Privateer
Raptor Rocket
Seahawk Sabre Scorpion Seagull Sea Wolfe Seminole Skyhawk Spartan Sycamore
Tiger Texan Trojan Tomcat Tornado
Viking Valiant Valkyrie Vanguard Vulcan
Wildcat Warhawk Warrior
Yankee
Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:38 am
Hmm. Best guess I can come up with is that they were possibly all unofficial names that were eventually officially accepted?
Perhaps I am way, way off. It would't be the first time!!!
Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:43 am
Which one represents the C-17? I don't see "Globemaster III" or "Moose" in that list.
Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:53 am
No one can figure out how to name an aircraft starting with K, Q, U, or X?
Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:54 pm
I want to say that there is a surviving airframe for every name listed. However that is only true if there is some other aircraft named Giant that is not the ME 323.
Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:35 pm
sdennison wrote:No one can figure out how to name an aircraft starting with K, Q, U, or X?

OH-58 Kiowa; YO-3A Quiet Star
Both of these were used in Viet Nam.
JMC
Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:57 pm
Hmm,
As lots of them I know have multiple different aircraft with that same name, I'm going to guess the answer is each name has been applied to more than one aircraft type...
Are we going to get told the answer?
Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:54 am
Who's Dick Phillips?
Tue Jan 26, 2010 7:19 am
If you don't know Dick Phillips turn in your WIX badge
Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:55 pm
tom roberts wrote:If you don't know Dick Phillips turn in your WIX badge
There's a WIX badge?! Huh, I didn't get one ...
Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:18 pm
ZeamerB17 wrote:Who's Dick Phillips?

He's one of the great warbird historians and photographers of yore, like Yoda

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Cheers,
Richard
Tue Jan 26, 2010 6:08 pm
RMAllnutt wrote:ZeamerB17 wrote:Who's Dick Phillips?

He's one of the great warbird historians and photographers of yore, like Yoda

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Cheers,
Richard
Well, actually Yoda answers to Dick!
T J
Tue Jan 26, 2010 7:36 pm
sdennison wrote:No one can figure out how to name an aircraft starting with K, Q, U, or X?

Kestrel, Kondor.....
Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:18 pm
Answer will be posted sometime tomorrow. Must think way outside the box on this one. There is a connection between then all with something not related to aviation.
Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:27 pm
OK, this is a WAG - either military codenames or something to do with the objects in the sky.
Randy
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