Scott Ferrin wrote in message . ..

The thing is the Kestrel has already been used. The Harrier
predecessor/prototype/experimental thing-a-ma-bob was called the
Kestrel. Most of the bird types are taken. You already have Eagles,
Falcons, Hawks, and so forth. I liked it back in the day like
Republic with it's Thunder------ and Grumman with it's cats. It's not
really written in stone that it needs to be a bird. You can tell they
really had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to come up with
"Raptor".

I think the JSF looks like a baby Raptor, maybe we should call it the
Raptor Chick. Maybe we can just paint them all black and call them the
Crows. Has ChickenHawk been used? Remember that little guy that used
to pester Foghorn Leghorn?