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Many years ago, I had started a list of as many as I could find. Some names ended up being the conventional assignment, some were very critical, several were repetitive and there were quite a few that were comical. The list ended up being into the hundreds as time went by and covers a span reaching from modern times all the way back to WWI.
Just read a book about Boeing and it stated that the B-17 got its name when a reporter, upon seeing the prototype being rolled out for the first time, exclaimed; "thats a Flying Fortress!" So I'm wondering where other famous WWII aircraft got their names, like Mustang, Spitfire - we can even go for the German names like Moskito, Uhu, Storch, etc.
Oxbox - Oxford. '10,000 aircraft parts flying in close formation' - Anson. Wooden Wonder/ Mossie - Mosquito. Der Luftwaffen Feuerzeug (the luftwaffe's lighter) - He 177. and official names: Blitz (Lightning)- Ar 234. Spitfire - named by an Air Ministry worker after his quick tempered daughter.
The US Army has a long standing tradition to name all its helicopters after native American tribes or famous native Americans (minus the AH-1 Huey Cobra) UH-1 Iroquois (It became the Huey later, I can tell you that story if you like) OH-58 Kiowa CH-47 Chinook UH-60 Black Hawk AH-64 Apache H-13 Sioux H-19 Chickisaw H-21 Shawnee CH-37 Mojave H-34 ...
Good point, Waynos. Under the centralized Soviet control of factories, a factory could be producing Ilyushin products one year, tractors the next, and Tupolev products the next. Sometimes people in the West do tend to refer to the design bureaux as if they were Western-style aircraft manufacturers, like the late Hawker Siddeley or Boeing.
In all seriousness, though, several aircraft manufacturers had named "themes", and while Grumman did use Felines for their fighters, they also used waterbird names for their amphibious aircraft: Duck Widgeon Mallard Albatross Goose Curtiss also tended to use bird names for their aircraft: Lark Shrike Condor Goshawk Pidgeon Eagle Hawk Seahawk ...
A painting of P-51B Mustangs of the 4th Fighter Group, Eighhth Army Air Force, flown by Captain Don S Gentile of Piqua, Ohio, who was credited with the destruction of 23 enemy aircraft in air combat and 10 by ground attack, and Lt (later Major)...
Partly as a result of the confusion existing in Intelligence circles and because Reisen's official Japanese designation was known early in the war, these various code names were not often used, and to this day this aircraft is known better as the ZERO. Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War - Rene J Francillon
Thanks Thorlifter! I did mean famous as in popular. Like in popular history and by mainstream media. I wrote France and Japan in the parantese but meant France and Italy. Suggestions regarding them are also appreciated. I mean, if it makes sense to say those countries had that number of aircrafts that can be said to be famous/popular.
Right, allot of aircraft were given names by their crews as you know, bombers and fighters alike, what's your favourite aircraft name and do you have a... Forums New posts Search forums Image search