"Rev Dr" Lenny Flank
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| Quote (phonon @ June 01 2007,15:15) | I mean, 10-15 years after the invention of the airplane, you'd think they'd start rushing around naming all the planes with the coolest, fiercest, fastest, most powerful names they could come up with and would use up most of the really impressive names for planes, but...
The Camel? ???
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Hmmm, I can't think offhand of any aircraft manufacturer of the time other than Sopwith whose aircraft actually bore NAMES. The Camel, the Pup, the Snipe, the Dolphin, the Salamander . . .
No Fokker anything. No Airco. No Bristol. No Pfaltz. No SPAD. E-III, DH-2, SE5a, Dr-1, D-VII . . . . just boring letters and numbers.
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