Planes named after birds

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Hello All,

Are there any planes named after birds?

Thanks in advance.

[Orval Fairbairn]

In article . com>,
wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Are there any planes named after birds?
>
> Thanks in advance.

Lots of them:

Cessna Skyhawk; Douglas A-4 Skyhawk; Christen Eagle; Curtiss: Kittyhawk,
Hawk, Warhawk, Falcon, Shrike; Grumman: Duck, Goose, Mallard, Albatross,
Widgeon; DeHavilland: Dove, Heron; Aero Commander: Shrike, to name a few.

[Gig 601XL Builder]

wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Are there any planes named after birds?
>
> Thanks in advance.

The F-16 Falcon, F-15 Eagle come to mind.

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wrote:
> Hello All,

> Are there any planes named after birds?

> Thanks in advance.

You mean like Widgeon, Albatross, Sky Hawk, Lark?

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[Jim Logajan]

wrote:
> Are there any planes named after birds?

Lots.

Some aircraft named after birds:
Osprey
Hummingbird
Shrike
Albatross
Hawk
Falcon
Goshawk
Robin
Condor
Nightingale
Raven

Some aircraft named after bugs:
Grasshopper
Mosquito
Hornet
Wasp
Moth
Black Widow

Some aircraft named after plants:
?

Some aircraft named after aquatic animals:
Dolphin
Stingray

Some aircraft named after land animals:
Camel
Buffalo
Caribou
Moose
Snake
Bobcat
Cobra
Bearcat
Mustang
Cougar

[Don Tuite]

No one's mentioned the Globe Swift yet.

Cessna made the 175 Skylark.

Piper made the Flying Milkstool -- no wait, that's not a bird.

Should be lots of avian-named homebuilts.

Don

[muff528]

> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> Are there any planes named after birds?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

My favorite....."Gooney Bird" although I think this
was not the "official name" :-)

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On Apr 23, 1:25 pm, wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Are there any planes named after birds?
>
> Thanks in advance.


AV-8B Harrier, in addition to all the others that have already been
named.

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

> On Apr 23, 1:25 pm, wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Are there any planes named after birds?
>>


A better question would be "Is there a bird that doesn't have an airplane
named after it?"

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[BT]

Kestrel

"Orval Fairbairn" > wrote in message
...
> In article . com>,
> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Are there any planes named after birds?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> Lots of them:
>
> Cessna Skyhawk; Douglas A-4 Skyhawk; Christen Eagle; Curtiss: Kittyhawk,
> Hawk, Warhawk, Falcon, Shrike; Grumman: Duck, Goose, Mallard, Albatross,
> Widgeon; DeHavilland: Dove, Heron; Aero Commander: Shrike, to name a few.

[BDS]

"Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" <The Sea Hawk at wow way d0t com> wrote
>
> A better question would be "Is there a bird that doesn't have an airplane
> named after it?"

Ostrich

Bruce

[BDS]

"BT" > wrote...

> Kestrel

I know it's not what the OP had in mind but there was a hang glider named
Kestrel at one time.

BDS

[Jose]

> A better question would be "Is there a bird that doesn't have an airplane
> named after it?"

Dodo.
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[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

"BDS" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" <The Sea Hawk at wow way d0t com> wrote
>>
>> A better question would be "Is there a bird that doesn't have an
>> airplane
>> named after it?"
>
> Ostrich
>
> Bruce
>

Not "full scale" but...

http://web.umr.edu/~aavg/projects.html#2006

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[BDS]

"Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" <The Sea Hawk at wow way d0t com> wrote

> Not "full scale" but...
>
> http://web.umr.edu/~aavg/projects.html#2006

OK, so much for that guess! I stand corrected.

BDS

[muff528]

"Jose" > wrote in message
t...
>> A better question would be "Is there a bird that doesn't have an
>> airplane named after it?"
>
> Dodo.
> --

Re: "Ostrich" and "Dodo"...........probably not a very good marketing
move for a manufacurer to name their airplanes after flightless birds.

[Kevin Clarke]

Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe wrote:
>> On Apr 23, 1:25 pm, wrote:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> Are there any planes named after birds?
>>>
>>>
>
>
> A better question would be "Is there a bird that doesn't have an airplane
> named after it?"
>
Flip the ...

[Crash Lander[_1_]]

Jabiru
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> wrote in message
oups.com...
> Hello All,
>
> Are there any planes named after birds?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

[Morgans[_2_]]

"muff528" > wrote

> Re: "Ostrich" and "Dodo"...........probably not a very good marketing
> move for a manufacurer to name their airplanes after flightless birds.

Oh, I don't know; Gooney Bird did alright for itself!
--
Jim in NC

[muff528]

"Morgans" > wrote in message
...
>
> "muff528" > wrote
>
>> Re: "Ostrich" and "Dodo"...........probably not a very good marketing
>> move for a manufacurer to name their airplanes after flightless birds.
>
> Oh, I don't know; Gooney Bird did alright for itself!
> --
> Jim in NC
>

I thought a gooney bird was an albatross!?!

[Mxsmanic]

Orval Fairbairn writes:

> Lots of them:
>
> Cessna Skyhawk; Douglas A-4 Skyhawk; Christen Eagle; Curtiss: Kittyhawk,
> Hawk, Warhawk, Falcon, Shrike; Grumman: Duck, Goose, Mallard, Albatross,
> Widgeon; DeHavilland: Dove, Heron; Aero Commander: Shrike, to name a few.

Better birds than royalty (Duchess, Baron, etc.).

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[Don Tuite]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:09:55 GMT, "muff528" >
wrote:

>
>"Morgans" > wrote in message
...
>>
>> "muff528" > wrote
>>
>>> Re: "Ostrich" and "Dodo"...........probably not a very good marketing
>>> move for a manufacurer to name their airplanes after flightless birds.
>>
>> Oh, I don't know; Gooney Bird did alright for itself!
>> --
>> Jim in NC
>>
>
>I thought a gooney bird was an albatross!?!
>
Some albarross landings have been featured in Disney nature films.

But the one we seem to be skating around is the Booby.

Don

[Maxwell]

"Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" <The Sea Hawk at wow way d0t com> wrote in message
...
>> On Apr 23, 1:25 pm, wrote:
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> Are there any planes named after birds?
>>>
>
>
> A better question would be "Is there a bird that doesn't have an airplane
> named after it?"
>

Sissortail?

[C J Campbell[_1_]]

On 2007-04-23 19:44:38 -0600, "muff528" > said:

>
> "Jose" > wrote in message
> t...
>>> A better question would be "Is there a bird that doesn't have an
>>> airplane named after it?"
>>
>> Dodo.
>> --
>
> Re: "Ostrich" and "Dodo"...........probably not a very good marketing
> move for a manufacurer to name their airplanes after flightless birds.
>
>

Maybe not, but there is a Kiwi Airline.
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[C J Campbell[_1_]]

On 2007-04-23 19:16:56 -0600, Jose > said:

>> A better question would be "Is there a bird that doesn't have an
>> airplane named after it?"
>
> Dodo.

Woodpecker.
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[BDS]

"Nomen Nescio" > wrote

> Clark's Nutcracker

Wait, I thought I saw an airplane at SnF named that, or maybe it was just
the 5-point harness.

BDS

[muff528]

"Don Tuite" > wrote in message
...
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:09:55 GMT, "muff528" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Morgans" > wrote in message
...
>>>
>>> "muff528" > wrote
>>>
>>>> Re: "Ostrich" and "Dodo"...........probably not a very good marketing
>>>> move for a manufacurer to name their airplanes after flightless birds.
>>>
>>> Oh, I don't know; Gooney Bird did alright for itself!
>>> --
>>> Jim in NC
>>>
>>
>>I thought a gooney bird was an albatross!?!
>>
> Some albarross landings have been featured in Disney nature films.
>
> But the one we seem to be skating around is the Booby.
>
> Don

Booby is a different species than a gooney bird but they are both
flying sea birds.. Of course "Gooney Bird" is the nickname for
DC3/C-47 but maybe the Grumman Albatross would be better
named the "Booby" :-))
see--
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Aircraft/Naval/GrummanAlbatross.jpg

[B A R R Y[_2_]]

Jose wrote:
>> A better question would be "Is there a bird that doesn't have an
>> airplane named after it?"
>
> Dodo.


Turkey or Chicken? <G>

[Ron Natalie]

Jim Logajan wrote:
> wrote:
>> Are there any planes named after birds?
>
> Lots.
>
> Some aircraft named after birds:


Lark (or is that named after a cigarette...show us your Lark pack!)


>
> Some aircraft named after plants:
> ?
Spruce goose (of course, that's not it's real name)
>
> Some aircraft named after land animals:

Cub! You forgot the cub?

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Here's some trivia...(named after a bird)
The Royal Navy's first monoplane divebomber:

The SKUA

[Jim Logajan]

Ron Natalie > wrote:
> Jim Logajan wrote:
>> Some aircraft named after birds:
>
> Lark (or is that named after a cigarette...show us your Lark pack!)

Sounds like an ad campaign before my time. :-)

>> Some aircraft named after plants:
>> ?
> Spruce goose (of course, that's not it's real name)

Hmmm. I considered that but wasn't sure whether it would fly - I guess my
thinking was rather wooden. Ahem.

>> Some aircraft named after land animals:
>
> Cub! You forgot the cub?

I forgot or overlooked a lot! But I think "cub" is perhaps a little too
broad since it can mean "the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as
the bear or wolf or lion":

http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=cub

By the way, I used this site as one source (very handy):

http://marchairmuseum.com/rouen01.php
"This list of 2892 airplane names (on ten pages) was compiled by Ed Rouen,
who for many years was the chief cataloger of the library at the San Diego
Aerospace Museum."

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Jose > wrote:
>> A better question would be "Is there a bird that doesn't have an airplane
>> named after it?"
>
> Dodo.

Please. Leave MX out of this thread.

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[Erik]

Jim Logajan wrote:
> Hmmm. I considered that but wasn't sure whether it would fly - I guess my
> thinking was rather wooden. Ahem.


Didn't it fly for about 120' or something?

[Jim Logajan]

Erik > wrote:
> Jim Logajan wrote:
>> Hmmm. I considered that but wasn't sure whether it would fly - I
>> guess my thinking was rather wooden. Ahem.
>
>
> Didn't it fly for about 120' or something?

It actually flew for over a mile. Hughes kept the plane maintained at
"flight ready" status for over 33 years - at a cost of about one million
dollars a year:

http://www.sprucegoose.org/aircraft_artifacts/exhibits.html

I've been to the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville Oregon and have,
like many visitors, been able to walk around inside the Spruce Goose (or at
least a small part of it). The Evergreen museum is nice in that they have
both the fastest plane there (the Blackbird - and at the time I visited
they had a similarly designed drone vehicle) and the largest (Spruce
Goose). I'd recommend it for anyone visiting Oregon.

Oh yeah - the thing I didn't think would "fly" was my inclusion of the
Spruce Goose under "Planes named after plants". The plane obviously flew
fine. :-)

[Gig 601XL Builder]

Jim Logajan wrote:

>
> It actually flew for over a mile. Hughes kept the plane maintained at
> "flight ready" status for over 33 years - at a cost of about one
> million dollars a year:

Now that is an expensive annual.

[Morgans[_2_]]

"Jim Logajan" <> wrote

> Oh yeah - the thing I didn't think would "fly" was my inclusion of the
> Spruce Goose under "Planes named after plants". The plane obviously flew
> fine. :-)

I'm not so sure that the Spruce Goose did fly fine. With that large of a
wingspan, on the only flight that it ever did, it never left ground effect.
I have theorized that Hughes knew that he did not have enough reserve lift
to leave ground effect, and so never flew it again.

I realize that there were a lot of "situations" around his attitude about
the plane and the government's attitude about the plane, but I still would
think that he would have flown it again, in a real flight test, if it had
performed as he had hoped.
--
Jim in NC

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

"C J Campbell" > wrote in message
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> On 2007-04-23 19:16:56 -0600, Jose > said:
>
>>> A better question would be "Is there a bird that doesn't have an
>>> airplane named after it?"
>>
>> Dodo.
>
> Woodpecker.
> --
> Waddling Eagle
> World Famous Flight Instructor
>

http://www.akaflieg.vo.tum.de/Englisch/Html/History_E.html

In 1951, the Mü10 'Milan' was re-activated from the German Museum in Munich
where the glider had survived the war. Three gliders - a Mü13 reproduction,
the "Spatz" (sparrow) and the "Specht" (woodpecker) - were acquired, later a
Klemm tow plane was added.

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[Phil]

On Apr 24, 6:12 am, B A R R Y > wrote:
> Jose wrote:
> >> A better question would be "Is there a bird that doesn't have an
> >> airplane named after it?"
>
> > Dodo.
>
> Turkey or Chicken? <G>

Vulture. Although there is an ultralight called the L'il Buzzard.

[Chris]

more after birds:

Harrier
Vampire (well it flies)
Seagull
Swift
Dove
Heron
Blackbird




Bugs

Gnat (Foland)
Scorpion

Fish

Swordfish (Fairey)

Land Sea & Animals

Vixen
Hind
Walrus
Sea otter
Seal
Beaver
Buffalo
Caribou
Chipmunk
Flamingo

Weather Phenomenon

Tempest
Typhoon
Hurricane
Thunderbolt

"Jim Logajan" > wrote in message
.. .
> wrote:
>> Are there any planes named after birds?
>
> Lots.
>
> Some aircraft named after birds:
> Osprey
> Hummingbird
> Shrike
> Albatross
> Hawk
> Falcon
> Goshawk
> Robin
> Condor
> Nightingale
> Raven
>
> Some aircraft named after bugs:
> Grasshopper
> Mosquito
> Hornet
> Wasp
> Moth
> Black Widow
>
> Some aircraft named after plants:
> ?
>
> Some aircraft named after aquatic animals:
> Dolphin
> Stingray
>
> Some aircraft named after land animals:
> Camel
> Buffalo
> Caribou
> Moose
> Snake
> Bobcat
> Cobra
> Bearcat
> Mustang
> Cougar

[C J Campbell[_1_]]

On 2007-04-24 14:36:02 -0700, "Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" <The Sea Hawk at
wow way d0t com> said:

> "C J Campbell" > wrote in message
> news:2007042401095175249-christophercampbell@hotmailcom...
>> On 2007-04-23 19:16:56 -0600, Jose > said:
>>
>>>> A better question would be "Is there a bird that doesn't have an
>>>> airplane named after it?"
>>>
>>> Dodo.
>>
>> Woodpecker.
>> --
>> Waddling Eagle
>> World Famous Flight Instructor
>>
>
> http://www.akaflieg.vo.tum.de/Englisch/Html/History_E.html
>
> In 1951, the Mü10 'Milan' was re-activated from the German Museum in Munich
> where the glider had survived the war. Three gliders - a Mü13 reproduction,
> the "Spatz" (sparrow) and the "Specht" (woodpecker) - were acquired, later a
> Klemm tow plane was added.
>
> --
> Geoff
> The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com
> remove spaces and make the obvious substitutions to reply by mail
> When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate.

Hahahaha. They named a plane after a woodpecker. That somehow just
tickles my funny bone.

Okay, did they ever name an aircraft after the archaeopteryx?
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[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

"C J Campbell" > wrote in message
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<...>
> Hahahaha. They named a plane after a woodpecker. That somehow just tickles
> my funny bone.
>
> Okay, did they ever name an aircraft after the archaeopteryx?
> --
> Waddling Eagle
> World Famous Flight Instructor
>

I'm guessing you can be the first...

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[muff528]

>
> Okay, did they ever name an aircraft after the archaeopteryx?
> --
> Waddling Eagle
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>


There is/was a skydiving canopy called the Paradactyl
and a lifting body called Dyna-Soar. Oh yeah, don't
forget the Raptor.

TP

[Bertie the Bunyip[_2_]]

Mxsmanic > wrote in
:

> Orval Fairbairn writes:
>
>> Lots of them:
>>
>> Cessna Skyhawk; Douglas A-4 Skyhawk; Christen Eagle; Curtiss:
>> Kittyhawk, Hawk, Warhawk, Falcon, Shrike; Grumman: Duck, Goose,
>> Mallard, Albatross, Widgeon; DeHavilland: Dove, Heron; Aero
>> Commander: Shrike, to name a few.
>
> Better birds than royalty (Duchess, Baron, etc.).

Or they could name one after you, turkey.


Bertie

[C J Campbell[_1_]]

On 2007-04-24 19:36:05 -0700, "muff528" > said:

>>
>> Okay, did they ever name an aircraft after the archaeopteryx?
>> --
>> Waddling Eagle
>> World Famous Flight Instructor
>>
>
>
> There is/was a skydiving canopy called the Paradactyl
> and a lifting body called Dyna-Soar. Oh yeah, don't
> forget the Raptor.
>
> TP

Archaeopteryx technically was not a dinosaur (but then, it wasn't a
bird, either). Then again, if you want to get into flying creatures
other than birds, there is always the Foxbat (really only a NATO
designation, not the airplane's actual name).
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World Famous Flight Instructor