Worst Possible Name For A Combat Aircraft.

Mumbles · Jun 17, 2015

sonofpegasus said:
How about the Squirt! officialy known as the Saunders-Roe SR A/1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saunders-Roe_SR.A/1 by the time of its first flight it was a fish out of water!

Almost "so uncool it's cool".

MattII · Jun 17, 2015

Mumbles said:
The BAC Eagle (as it would have been known) finds your lack of faith disturbing. . .

From the front it looks good enough, but from underneath or behind (the angle you actually want people to see it from), it looks f***ing ungainly:

Mumbles said:
Still cooler than the Princess though, which was all of the above and then some.

Agreed, and ugly-looking to boot (seriously, unlike the TSR-2, there is no angle at which a Princess doesn't look ugly and malformed).

wietze · Jun 17, 2015

much better view of the TSR2 (and my desktop wallpaper)

MattII · Jun 17, 2015

It's not the angle you want the enemy to see it from though.

Just Leo · Jun 17, 2015

The ACTUAL view you don't want your enemies to see.

SpicyJuan · Jun 17, 2015

Michel Van said:
Ze German Luftwaffe had at end of WW2 very Bizarre Aircraft Design in Development.

Blohm und Voss P.194

Blohm und Voss BV P.111

sadly we German not gave names to aircraft only designation like BV P.111
but we gave them nicknames

Messerschmitt Bf 261 got nickname "Adolfine" because Hitler eminent interest on that model...

How do the BV projects (ignoring the fact that the P.111 was a backup to the 138 and was designed before the war have anything to do with this subject? And the last picture is a Me 110, not Me 261

Michel Van · Jun 18, 2015

SpicyJuan said:
How do the BV projects (ignoring the fact that the P.111 was a backup to the 138 and was designed before the war have anything to do with this subject? And the last picture is a Me 110, not Me 261

only in context to give worst Name to those Aircraft
sorry for error of Me 110 instead Me 261 (thx for the note, SpicyJuan)

Here picture of Me 261 "Adolfine" (was enlarged version of the Messerschmitt Bf 110)

Bundesarchiv_Bild_141-2474,_Flugzeug_Messerschmitt_Me_261_V-2.jpg

SpicyJuan · Jun 18, 2015

Michel Van said:
only in context to give worst Name to those Aircraft
sorry for error of Me 110 instead Me 261 (thx for the note, SpicyJuan)

Here picture of Me 261 "Adolfine" (was enlarged version of the Messerschmitt Bf 110)

Np, and yes Adolfine is a "great" name

Fun fact: The Me 261 used the same coupled DB 606 engines as on the He 177, but without all the trouble.