NAMING PLANE TYPES
Simple System To Be Used
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 19. To avoid confusion, Allied aircraft produced in future will be largely standardized. This is the work of a sjib-eommit-tee of a joint aircraft committee on which the British and American military .and naval services hold membership. Names will be assigned only to types which have reached the production stage and those already existing in considerable numbers. Each basic model will retain the name originally assigned. For instance, Airacobras will be P 39, A, B, C and D. The keynote of new names will be simplicity with meaning. Thus, fighters will have names indicating speed, manoeuvrability, fighting characteristics or aggressiviness. The bombers’ names will indicate size, weight, power, range or destructive characteristics. Pajrol types .will use seafaring terms.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 98, 21 January 1944, Page 5
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131NAMING PLANE TYPES Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 98, 21 January 1944, Page 5
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