[WWI] Nicknames

[Ivan Carlos Ruchesi]

>I seem to remember having read somewhere (Datafile Special for Pup or The Pup
>File by AirBritain being the most probable sources) that a high ranking Air
>Ministry or RFC (or somesuch) official had exclamated: "My God! Your plane
>has got a pup! Referring of course to the 1 1/2 Strutter. Which, incidentally,
>is an unofficial nickname, too, as is Camel, originally.

Jan Most of those articles were written by the late J.M.Bruce. His articles always paid attention to the matter of official designations of british aircrat, especially those published on Datafiles. Ivan



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