[WWI] Animal names, was Lack of List Activity

Douglas Anderson djandersonza at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 24 08:24:21 EDT 2007


Thanks, but I was wondering OT and excklluding Sopwith. I would guess that if there were any names they would have been nicknames given by the crews, for example "Harry Tate"

Thayer Syme <thayers at flyrc.com> wrote:  OT or otherwise?

Sopwith Bat Boat, most all of the DeHavilland a/c, CV Kingfisher, all 
the Grumman Iron Works cats and amphib flying boats, Curtiss P-6E 
Hawk for a few more.

Thayer

At 06:59 AM 8/23/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>Sopwiths had a thing for aquiring animal names, Pup, Camel, Snipe, 
>Dolphin (to name a few). Martinsyde had the Elephant. Blackburn the 
>Kangaroo. Any-one know of any other aircraft that aquired an animal name?

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