Arthur_Phuxache
The Long Good Double Points Friday
- Location
- Greater Doncastrian Empire
In short, were there any?
Heavy Bombers: they seemed to get the big towns and cities (Lancaster, Manchester, Stirling, Halifax, Lincoln, Heyford(??) Harrow (???)) - but this falls apart with the Vickers Wellesley and Wellington, and the Handley-Page Hampden.
However, there's never a been a Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Birmingham, Liverpool, Peterborough or Toronto - but there has been a Canberra. Could any self-respecting aviator take an Avro Norwich or a Handley Page Huddersfield seriously? The Hampden brings us to...
Aliteration: Vickers, Hawker, Miles, Percival and Westland seem to have stuck to this, and Supermarine tried, but Vickers ran out of V-words very quickly, and Hawker ran out of Hs in 1936 with Hurricane, having used up most of them on the Hart/Hind family. Handley-Page stuck with H's right up until the Victor. And after.
Which would have caused confusion if the Supermarine Victory had gone into production with that name.
Which bring us to...
Fighters: Winds? (Whirlwind, Typhoon, Tempest) Insects? (Mosquito, Hornet) Adjectives? (Spitfire, Spiteful) Stellar objects (Meteor) Mythical characters/bats (Vampire). Pick a theme, guys.
Army co-operation: ahh some consistency at last, Westland Lysander, Airspeed Horsa. Mythical characters. Never mind the Auster AOP.
Medium Bombers: anything goes - Insects, Battles (Blenheim, er...Battle) , US cities (Boston, Baltimore).
Flying Boats: more consistency, sea ports! Lerwick, Sunderland, Singapore, Stranraer, Seaford (er...) London (wait a mo...), Walrus (what?) Seagull??? You nearly had a theme there, then you blew it. The Sea ports theme got re-used with Transport Aircraft, meaning the Belfast and the Hastings replaced the York.
American aircraft: Sorry you guys, the British named the Liberator, Lightning, Hudson, Mustang, Dakota (which has stuck harder to the DC-3 than 'Skytrain' or 'Skytrooper') and Harvard (ditto with regard to AT-6, Texan, SNJ).
You make life difficult for alternate historians, you do.
Heavy Bombers: they seemed to get the big towns and cities (Lancaster, Manchester, Stirling, Halifax, Lincoln, Heyford(??) Harrow (???)) - but this falls apart with the Vickers Wellesley and Wellington, and the Handley-Page Hampden.
However, there's never a been a Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Birmingham, Liverpool, Peterborough or Toronto - but there has been a Canberra. Could any self-respecting aviator take an Avro Norwich or a Handley Page Huddersfield seriously? The Hampden brings us to...
Aliteration: Vickers, Hawker, Miles, Percival and Westland seem to have stuck to this, and Supermarine tried, but Vickers ran out of V-words very quickly, and Hawker ran out of Hs in 1936 with Hurricane, having used up most of them on the Hart/Hind family. Handley-Page stuck with H's right up until the Victor. And after.
Which would have caused confusion if the Supermarine Victory had gone into production with that name.
Which bring us to...
Fighters: Winds? (Whirlwind, Typhoon, Tempest) Insects? (Mosquito, Hornet) Adjectives? (Spitfire, Spiteful) Stellar objects (Meteor) Mythical characters/bats (Vampire). Pick a theme, guys.
Army co-operation: ahh some consistency at last, Westland Lysander, Airspeed Horsa. Mythical characters. Never mind the Auster AOP.
Medium Bombers: anything goes - Insects, Battles (Blenheim, er...Battle) , US cities (Boston, Baltimore).
Flying Boats: more consistency, sea ports! Lerwick, Sunderland, Singapore, Stranraer, Seaford (er...) London (wait a mo...), Walrus (what?) Seagull??? You nearly had a theme there, then you blew it. The Sea ports theme got re-used with Transport Aircraft, meaning the Belfast and the Hastings replaced the York.
American aircraft: Sorry you guys, the British named the Liberator, Lightning, Hudson, Mustang, Dakota (which has stuck harder to the DC-3 than 'Skytrain' or 'Skytrooper') and Harvard (ditto with regard to AT-6, Texan, SNJ).
You make life difficult for alternate historians, you do.