Warbird Information Exchange

I love this name!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/my_public_ ... 794458300/
Got one better?

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" excuse me stewardess I speak jive"

Post WW1 British Nieuport Nightjar
'this thing flies like crap!!!!

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

I've never seen a more appropriate warbird nose art than this one.

"The Enchantress"

If that doesn't cover what these birds have done to me for the last 45 years, nothing does.

Fairey Flycatcher,
Parnell Possum & Pixie,
Sopwith Cuckoo,
Hawker Hedgehog & Hoopoe
Pre-war Britain had a bunch of great names...designed to strike laughter into the hearts of foes.

Dauntless, Invader, Vindicator, were great names. Flying Fortress, was a bit hokey, but good for PR.

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Remember the vets, the wonderful planes they flew and their sacrifices for a future many of them did not live to see.
Note political free signature.
I figure if you wanted my opinion on items unrelated to this forum, you'd ask for it.

Even though it's pretty well documented that the "Middle River Stump Jumper" was scrapped, I'm still holding out hope that it's tucked away in the back of a junkyard in the Baltimore area....right alongside the Martin Baltimore that was used as an instructional airframe at a local trade school. One can always dream....

Agreed. The fearsome-sounding Hawker Tomtit comes to mind...a name that conjures nightmare images of this particularly-loathsome bird of prey:

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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.

FW-190 Wurger (Butcher Bird)

Double post.

To be fair the Hawker Tomtit as a trainer didn't really have have any foes to strike fear into. If we're including trainers (well - a trainer) the Reid and Sigrist Snargasher has to be up there.

Not forgetting the first suggested name for the Spitfire was the Supermarine Shrew. Doesn't have the same ring somehow.

Don't forget the fearsome Gloster Gnatsnapper!

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I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.

I've always been partial to this one:
http://www.ww2incolor.com/us-air-force/B24-nose.html

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Life member, 91st BG Memorial Association
Owner, 1944 Willys MB #366014
Former REMF (US Army, O3)

Here's my submission

My favorite is "Strange Cargo" - 509th CG silverplate B-29.

Tom P.

I think the Ready 4 Duty name and artwork is quite appropriate. Of course the politically correct further explanation as that it is on an R4D airplane.

So, that's your game EH? Then just let me say this about that-
R4Q-2 'please call the tower after shutdown'

GOOGLE R4Q-2

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-