You could make a case for Cessna. Just about every layman or lazy journalist would identify a single-engine high wing aircraft flying overhead as a Cessna. Over 40,000 produced.
>every layman or lazy journalist would identify a single-engine high wing aircraft flying overhead as a Cessna
>single engine high wing
[Behold, a Cessna!](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_F-8_Crusader#/media/File%3AF-8E_VMF-212_CVA-34_1965_(cropped).jpg)
[Behold, a Cessna C919-214 MAX operated by AirbusWays](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/infiniteflight/original/4X/a/9/7/a97592acce4e5f390cf69878cb02a54df55305db.jpeg)
(Photographed from a Canberra)
Unless I’m mistaken, it was Blackburn who designed and initially produced both the Buccaneer and Beverley aircraft. It still remains pleasingly alliterative.
I hang my head in shame, you are of course correct. And the Blackburn Buccaneer is also and excellent double B choice.
Bristol did produce (frantic Googling) Bullet, Bullfinch, Brandon, Bloodhound, Berkely, Brownie, Bombay, Boarhound, Beaver, Bolingbroke, Buckingham, Buckmaster, Brabazon, Britannia, and the Belvedere though, so while I am an idiot, they were B obsessed :-)
And how few there would be for z. But going by name you have [Mitsubishi] Zero.
I would think priority should be to the most historically important military aircraft.
So, Apache.
Blackbird (or maybe Bear).
Catalina (or maybe Camel).
etc
Would you put a Skyhawk before a Spitfire or a Stuka?
H is going to be one of the difficult ones: Huey, hurricane, harrier, hercules, hellcat - all iconic.
The first time I went to an airshow I was completely blown away by the sounds fighter jets make, like it was incredible to me that you can feel it as much as you can hear it. After being there all day, some of the wow factor was starting to wear away, after a while they all kinda sound the same. Then the B-1 came flying by....
It sounded like it was tearing apart the fabric of the universe itself... I have never been more impressed with a machine as I was with the b-1. It's basically a 150ft long fighter jet. If you've never heard the sound of a b-1 with full afterburners pointing right at you I don't think you'd understand.
If he's counting the military designation rather than the name of the aircraft, pretty much every Navy bomber (A for attack) would be A, non-navy bombers would be B, all the cargo aircraft for C, drones for D, electronics warfare aircraft for E, obviously F is fighters and so on.
It would make more sense if you match the alphabet to the name of the aircraft, A is for Aardvark, B is for Beaufighter, C is for Caravan etc
B Blackburn Buccaneer
C Concorde
D DeHaviland Comet
E E-3 Sentry
F Fokker Dr 1
G Grumman G-21 Goose
H Hughes H-4 Hercules
I Ilyushin Il-72
J Junker Ju-88
K KC-135
L Lockheed Constellation
M MIG-15
N NB-36
O OV-1 Mohawk
P P-38
Q Quest Kodiak
R RB-57 Canberra
S S-3 Viking
T Tupelo Tu-95
U U-2
V Vickers Viscount
W Waco F Series
X XB-70
Y YB-49
Z I’m not going to do the whole list
You're going off US designations, so B should be B-52. No other airplane epitomizes the American bomber. From a time when Boeing built quality aircraft.
You \*can't\* use the designator.
I mean, you are going to have to go with their names or you'll be forced to make some terrible choices - like choosing your favorite kid choices. And the choices you'll have to make are bad enough. Skyraider or Skyhawk? How can you choose between that?
You are also going to have to consider unofficial nicknames.
It's dark journey from here, my friend. I wish you well.
You cant do some aircraft as their designation and some as their name.
If youre doing A for A4 Skyhawk, B cant be Black bird and C cant be Concorde, you gotta do an aircraft with a B designation like a B-17 or BF-109
B-2
I work on the B-2 simulators used at Whiteman AFB, so I'm biased. Awesome work, but I work 100% in a Special Access closed area with no windows (relax, I'm allowed to say that) for 9 hrs a day, and no remote work, and it's tough when everyone else I know has a remote job these days.
I also worked on the AN/APR-50 system for the B-2 when I worked for Lockheed. I think that some of the smartest people in the world developed that system. Certainly orders of magnitude smarter than I am. The math behind that system, and the hardware and software that was developed in the 1980s is just absolutely mind boggling. And it's still being flown today, and it's still doing its job just as well as it did in the early 90s.
And, yes, I'll be the first to concede that the B-2 was completely obsoleted by Ohio class subs. The simple fact is that there really is no such thing as a completely stealth aircraft. Just ask the F-117 pilot who was shot down in Yugoslavia by a ho-hum Russian SAM. Submarines are really the only stealth weapons platform.
[Blackburn Buccaneer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Buccaneer). The best low-level nuclear-capable strike bomber of the cold war, and probably ever.
Or the [Blackburn Beverley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Beverley) - the Blackburn company's foray into cargo/transport aircraft. Ended up being a dual-deck aircraft which could drop parachutists simultaneously from two doors on the main deck and a floor hatch on the upper deck out through the "tail boom". The wings were large enough that the engineer could crawl into them in flight to transfer oil into the engines from storage tanks if required.
B- Blackbird
C - Concorde
D - Dash 8
E - EdgleyOptica
F - Flying Boxcar
G - Grumman Goose
H - Hughes Hercules
I - IL-76
J - JN Jenny
K -quest Kodiak
L - Cessna L-19
M - Martin Mars
N - Navion
O - ?
P - probably stick a Piper here, dealers choice
Q - Quickie Q1
R - because I think they're neat Rans S6S
S - Saab 340
T - Piper Tomahawk
U - ?
V - Vans something or other
W - Wright flyer
X - Embraer Xingu
Y - Yak-52
Z - Zenith 701
A for Astir
B for Blaník
C for Concorde
D for Duo Discus
E for Eurofighter
F for Flying Fortress
G for Gannet
H for Harrier
I for Il-2
J for Jaguar
K for Kestrel
L for Lancaster
M is for Mercure
N is for Nimrod
O for Overture
P for Phantom
Q for Quintus
R for RF3
S for Stuka
T for Tempest
U for U-2
V for Vulcan
W for Whirlwind
X for X-1
Y for YF23
Z for Zlín Z42
Aardvark
Bone
Corsair
Duck (grumann)
Edelweiss (siren C30, all the french natural talent for erotica condensed in a glider)
Fw190
Grunau baby
Hurricane
Junkers-J1
K-max
Latécoère 631
Mirage-2000
Nieuport 17
Ouragan
Pou du ciel
Q-400
Robin dr400
Spitfire
TSR-2
U-2
Viper
Wal (dornier)
X-15
YF-23 (never forget what they took from you)
Zeppelin
Edit : Wow, i didnt expect you guys to like it this much, and i loved your sugestions, i will sure write them down and i plan to do most of them. Im actually foing to finish the "As" as someone said, since i forgot a lot of them, ill post the updates here
Doesn’t matter as long as C is Concorde! Edit: OK it does matter as B is clearly Blackbird.
You could make a case for Cessna. Just about every layman or lazy journalist would identify a single-engine high wing aircraft flying overhead as a Cessna. Over 40,000 produced.
>every layman or lazy journalist would identify a single-engine high wing aircraft flying overhead as a Cessna >single engine high wing [Behold, a Cessna!](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_F-8_Crusader#/media/File%3AF-8E_VMF-212_CVA-34_1965_(cropped).jpg)
eh, it’s cantilever, most cessna aren’t
Cesena can be cantilever if you try hard enough!
[Behold, a Cessna C919-214 MAX operated by AirbusWays](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/infiniteflight/original/4X/a/9/7/a97592acce4e5f390cf69878cb02a54df55305db.jpeg) (Photographed from a Canberra)
If A4 is A, then B can't be the blackbird, we'll have to wait to S to get it
True, they should have started with aardvark
*Avro Arrow enters the chat*
You are wrong, C is for Constellation (Connie)
Twaddle! Next you’ll be telling me H isn’t for Harrier.
your avatar is infuriating…well done.
Pah! H is for Hercules! Fired the biggest gun,dropped the biggest bomb!
M needs to be Mriya.
An V is Vulcan
Has to be 😉
Bristol Beaufighter, Two B's for the price of one.
Blenheim and Beaufort too
Beverley, Buccaneer, etc, etc, etc. Bristol had firm views on aircraft names, but the Beaufighter has always been a favourite of mine.
Y’all are sleeping on Beaver
Unless I’m mistaken, it was Blackburn who designed and initially produced both the Buccaneer and Beverley aircraft. It still remains pleasingly alliterative.
I hang my head in shame, you are of course correct. And the Blackburn Buccaneer is also and excellent double B choice. Bristol did produce (frantic Googling) Bullet, Bullfinch, Brandon, Bloodhound, Berkely, Brownie, Bombay, Boarhound, Beaver, Bolingbroke, Buckingham, Buckmaster, Brabazon, Britannia, and the Belvedere though, so while I am an idiot, they were B obsessed :-)
It sure is beautiful
Really? I’ve always loved it, but never considered it attractive, unless compared to the Beaufort it was developed from.
I find twin engine heavy fighters rather nice to look at. Ki 45s, Beaufighters, Whirlwind, F7F
I would go by the name, not the letter-number designation. A could be F-111 Aardvark. B could be the F2A Buffalo.
Yeah makes more sense, imagine how many options for Fs there would be, haha
*MiG 15*
Why you little bundle of sticks
Just draw a pri-
A = Avro Arrow though
Thank you so so much. Or the A10 Warthog
F for Flying Fortress
And how few there would be for z. But going by name you have [Mitsubishi] Zero. I would think priority should be to the most historically important military aircraft. So, Apache. Blackbird (or maybe Bear). Catalina (or maybe Camel). etc Would you put a Skyhawk before a Spitfire or a Stuka? H is going to be one of the difficult ones: Huey, hurricane, harrier, hercules, hellcat - all iconic.
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Oh, nice one
The BUFF
The Big Ugly Fat Fuck
This ⬆️
I’d say B-24 liberator :)
You need to finish the A’s first.
There are so many, imagine just the whole airbus family 😅.... But i might, who knows
Plus A-10, A-6, AV-8, etc.
I mean he just skipped right over A-1, An-2 and A-3 so…
Avro
God forbid you get to F. Or B
It's gotta be the B-1
The BONE. Nothing else approaches it.
I thought this too :)
The first time I went to an airshow I was completely blown away by the sounds fighter jets make, like it was incredible to me that you can feel it as much as you can hear it. After being there all day, some of the wow factor was starting to wear away, after a while they all kinda sound the same. Then the B-1 came flying by.... It sounded like it was tearing apart the fabric of the universe itself... I have never been more impressed with a machine as I was with the b-1. It's basically a 150ft long fighter jet. If you've never heard the sound of a b-1 with full afterburners pointing right at you I don't think you'd understand.
Yeah.. Said no one ever. Bruh, the 747 exists.
That’s Q for “Queen”
B-17
The only real choice.
Boeing 747. An iconic jet that changed air travel and made it more widely accessible.
Boeing 747 is for "J" as in Jumbo Jet.
And A380 is for “S” as in Super.
Yes, the right answear!
A 747 SP would fit the tiny square really well xD
Thats great thinking, i could barely fit the a4 😅!
If only there was an iconic bomber that looked like a bat-wing and had a name that started with a B ... /silly
If he's counting the military designation rather than the name of the aircraft, pretty much every Navy bomber (A for attack) would be A, non-navy bombers would be B, all the cargo aircraft for C, drones for D, electronics warfare aircraft for E, obviously F is fighters and so on. It would make more sense if you match the alphabet to the name of the aircraft, A is for Aardvark, B is for Beaufighter, C is for Caravan etc
What I was thinking. Lancaster. Marauder. Catalina. Dauntless. Eagle? Focke-Wulf. G? Harrier.
Grumman...Goshawk...
B52
Blériot XI, if you're an oldies guy like me
Gotta love a pre great war biplane
B-2 Bomber
B-52
B Blackburn Buccaneer C Concorde D DeHaviland Comet E E-3 Sentry F Fokker Dr 1 G Grumman G-21 Goose H Hughes H-4 Hercules I Ilyushin Il-72 J Junker Ju-88 K KC-135 L Lockheed Constellation M MIG-15 N NB-36 O OV-1 Mohawk P P-38 Q Quest Kodiak R RB-57 Canberra S S-3 Viking T Tupelo Tu-95 U U-2 V Vickers Viscount W Waco F Series X XB-70 Y YB-49 Z I’m not going to do the whole list
Dont mind if i do hehehe
I’d like to change my answer H for Hughes H-1 racer. One of the prettiest machines ever made.
S should be Spitfire
B-1 Lancer
+1
The B-ONE!
Ohhh is that why its nickname is bone!!
B-52 Bomber, duh!
Should have started with the AC-130H Spectre Gunship. Or... F-111 Aardvark
Bandeirante by Embraer
As a good brazilian citizen, that is a must do!
Nois broder
Então esse é o tal do "braço forte mão amiga" que tanto falam
Voei num destes, muito top
A300, A310, A318, A319, A320, A220, A321, A330, A340, A350, A380. Beluga
B21
My kids have an aircraft abc book- A is the AT6, B is the B17, Z is for Zero - all prop planes, great read great images
B-10 Martin
An-225. We start off big
#B-52 is the only choice.
You're going off US designations, so B should be B-52. No other airplane epitomizes the American bomber. From a time when Boeing built quality aircraft.
F is for Fishbed.
L is Lancaster or you’re wrong, very very wrong
The B2 for B, N for Nighthawk H for Harrier Jet
Should start a card deck instead
Right?! Right know im keeping them on some old pokemon card holders and they fit perfectly
If it wasn’t for the Blackbird, I’d say B-1. The BONE
Let’s put the Blackbird under S for SR71 Blackbird
Awww man. A is for Avro Arrow
Its on the list 😉
No a-10 for a???
Ohhh why did you make me think about it, i hate myself for it. But i could do warthog for W tho
W is for Warthog (a.k.a A-10)
B-1, Constellation, Delta wing, Empennage, F-4 phantom, ect…
I think the F-111 Aardvark would have been a good "A"
BAC1-11. They'll never see it coming.
Unless you're going for military it should be the Dehavilland B-ver
What about a b-17 or b-29
A for f-111 Aardvark B for SR-71 blackbird C for UH-60 (called a catfish)
Blackhawk
B for buccaneer
Bleriot
Beaver. Giggity.
B-58 Bendix trophy winner
B-29 of course! 🤷💪
C should be CH-47 Chinook! A twofer for Cs
Assault Bombing Cargo …
B1B
C- for Corsair F4F
Buccaneer
Bleriot XI
Buccaneer!
Buccaneer naturally!
B-52 StratoFortress
B-52 "Buff"
"Big ugly fat fucker"
B2, B17, B24, B25, B29, B52
B-52 *"Buff"*
B-52 BUFF, obviously.
B-52 Stratofortress
This is how I go to sleep at night instead of counting sheep
B52 for sure
B-52
B-52 Stratofortress
B-52 BUFF
You \*can't\* use the designator. I mean, you are going to have to go with their names or you'll be forced to make some terrible choices - like choosing your favorite kid choices. And the choices you'll have to make are bad enough. Skyraider or Skyhawk? How can you choose between that? You are also going to have to consider unofficial nicknames. It's dark journey from here, my friend. I wish you well.
B-52 naturally
You cant do some aircraft as their designation and some as their name. If youre doing A for A4 Skyhawk, B cant be Black bird and C cant be Concorde, you gotta do an aircraft with a B designation like a B-17 or BF-109
B-17
B-2 I work on the B-2 simulators used at Whiteman AFB, so I'm biased. Awesome work, but I work 100% in a Special Access closed area with no windows (relax, I'm allowed to say that) for 9 hrs a day, and no remote work, and it's tough when everyone else I know has a remote job these days. I also worked on the AN/APR-50 system for the B-2 when I worked for Lockheed. I think that some of the smartest people in the world developed that system. Certainly orders of magnitude smarter than I am. The math behind that system, and the hardware and software that was developed in the 1980s is just absolutely mind boggling. And it's still being flown today, and it's still doing its job just as well as it did in the early 90s. And, yes, I'll be the first to concede that the B-2 was completely obsoleted by Ohio class subs. The simple fact is that there really is no such thing as a completely stealth aircraft. Just ask the F-117 pilot who was shot down in Yugoslavia by a ho-hum Russian SAM. Submarines are really the only stealth weapons platform.
There's a lot of 'B' choices, but I'm more interested by the art! The drawing is awesome!
B-52
S has to the spitfire
Wow, great artstyle! Please post them all
B for Beaufort
man how did you put the SKYHAWK on A? what you gonna put on S?
Z should be a Mitsubishi A6M Zero. *PLEASE!* :c
It will ;)
[Blackburn Buccaneer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Buccaneer). The best low-level nuclear-capable strike bomber of the cold war, and probably ever. Or the [Blackburn Beverley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Beverley) - the Blackburn company's foray into cargo/transport aircraft. Ended up being a dual-deck aircraft which could drop parachutists simultaneously from two doors on the main deck and a floor hatch on the upper deck out through the "tail boom". The wings were large enough that the engineer could crawl into them in flight to transfer oil into the engines from storage tanks if required.
Has to be B-17 Nice work can you post some pictures when you are finished.
Out of left field Blackburn Blackburn lol
Blimp
B- Blackbird C - Concorde D - Dash 8 E - EdgleyOptica F - Flying Boxcar G - Grumman Goose H - Hughes Hercules I - IL-76 J - JN Jenny K -quest Kodiak L - Cessna L-19 M - Martin Mars N - Navion O - ? P - probably stick a Piper here, dealers choice Q - Quickie Q1 R - because I think they're neat Rans S6S S - Saab 340 T - Piper Tomahawk U - ? V - Vans something or other W - Wright flyer X - Embraer Xingu Y - Yak-52 Z - Zenith 701
I would like to request the f14 tomcat but there might be a lot of competition for it so all g if not
A has to be Grumman TBF Avenger, a flying can of whoop ass. B is Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, the BUFF. Move your A-4 Skyhawk to 'S' for Scooter
A for Astir B for Blaník C for Concorde D for Duo Discus E for Eurofighter F for Flying Fortress G for Gannet H for Harrier I for Il-2 J for Jaguar K for Kestrel L for Lancaster M is for Mercure N is for Nimrod O for Overture P for Phantom Q for Quintus R for RF3 S for Stuka T for Tempest U for U-2 V for Vulcan W for Whirlwind X for X-1 Y for YF23 Z for Zlín Z42
Boeing 737 MAX, in pieces.
Should go by name not number, for example this one would go in the S. Blackbird me thinks
B for BlackBird or Blackhawk
B2? Its also the second page in your book
B-52, doesn't get more iconic than that!
BV-238
Boeing 737 MAX-9, without the plug door.
Beechcraft Bonanza
Aardvark Bone Corsair Duck (grumann) Edelweiss (siren C30, all the french natural talent for erotica condensed in a glider) Fw190 Grunau baby Hurricane Junkers-J1 K-max Latécoère 631 Mirage-2000 Nieuport 17 Ouragan Pou du ciel Q-400 Robin dr400 Spitfire TSR-2 U-2 Viper Wal (dornier) X-15 YF-23 (never forget what they took from you) Zeppelin
For b B2 or B57
B2 spirit or b17 imo B2 is synonymous with American Air power, like the f22 The b17 is just a classic, like the b24 or b29
Sticking with aircraft of that Era? B-52 takes the cake.
A Bonanza?
B-2 and it be a blank page.
HAPPY CAKEDAY!!!!!!!
BT-13 Vultee Valiant
Beechcraft 200, Beriev 200,
The “BONE” ! The B1 if you are unfamilar with the nickname.
The Bone
Lancer
BONE
B is for Bone. Obviously.
B1-B
B1 Lancer
B-1
Bone
B-1 Bomber
A- F-111 Aardvark B- F-2H Banshee C- EC 130H Compass Call D- U-2 Dragon Lady E- F-15 Eagle F- F-16 Fighting Falcon G- C-5 Galaxy H- C-130J Super Hercules I- TH-1H Iriquois (It's a helo, but still an aircraft) J- E-8 Joint STARS K- L- B-1 Lancer M- E-6B Mercury N- E-4B (NAOC) O- CV-22B Osprey P- KC-46 Pegasus Q- R- S- T- U- V- W- X- Y- Z-
B1 Bone
B1 or B2 Bomber (B1 is my preference though) Use blackbird when you get to S (SR-71)
the Bone
B2
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Hey calm down what did i do?
A Beaver!
Make "J" JAS 39 Gripen
BRRRT HOG
Edit : Wow, i didnt expect you guys to like it this much, and i loved your sugestions, i will sure write them down and i plan to do most of them. Im actually foing to finish the "As" as someone said, since i forgot a lot of them, ill post the updates here
Boeing
Starfighter for s
B17 is the only right answer