Numerical Gaps in U. S. Aircraft Designations

[Eric Moore]

The Jan 12, 2004 section of:

http://www.strategypage.com//fyeo/howtomakewar/default.asp?target=HTAIRFO.HTM

mentions the missing numbers in the U. S. aircraft designation system.

I wonder what other numerical oddities we can expect in the future, since
the services seem to skip ahead of the numerical sequence whenever they feel
like it.

[Cub Driver]

>I wonder what other numerical oddities we can expect in the future, since
>the services seem to skip ahead of the numerical sequence whenever they feel
>like it.

Yes, this is a terrible thing to do to young American boys.

(Do young American boys still obsess over military aircraft?)

(I was at the Udvar-Hazy annex to the Air & Space Museum on Saturday.
I think if you added them up, the German, Chinese, Japanese, and
Russian children outnumbered the Americans. But perhaps the latter
were all at the Imax movie.)

all the best -- Dan Ford
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[Andreas Parsch]

Eric Moore wrote:

> The Jan 12, 2004 section of:
>
> http://www.strategypage.com//fyeo/howtomakewar/default.asp?target=HTAIRFO.HTM
>
> mentions the missing numbers in the U. S. aircraft designation system.


I can't let this one go by ;-))!

The article isn't 100% up to date - e.g. there's no need to speculate
any longer about F-19, and the correct number for the KC-767 would
have been KC-42 (and not -41).

<plug>
If you're interested in the topic you might look at;

http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/nonstandard-mds.html
http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/missing-mds.html

</plug>

Andreas

[Ron Parsons]

In article >,
Cub Driver > wrote:

>(Do young American boys still obsess over military aircraft?)

Those who decided to fly before they were of school age.

>
>(I was at the Udvar-Hazy annex to the Air & Space Museum on Saturday.
>I think if you added them up, the German, Chinese, Japanese, and
>Russian children outnumbered the Americans. But perhaps the latter
>were all at the Imax movie.)

Or were all in school being taught to be anti-war and anti-American.

--
Ron

[Jim Atkins]

Hey- I teach in 29 Palms (junior high)- most of my students are either from
Marine or ex-Marine families. Nobody I know is teaching them to be anti-war
or anti-American, that's for dammed sure.

--
Jim Atkins
Twentynine Palms CA USA

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