CBK's and "Iconic Aircraft"

[Jagewa]

Well my wife can list ten:

Tomcat - Top Gun
Spitfire
Lancaster
Harrier
Tiger Moth
Harvard
Triplane - Red Baron's one
Camel - Snoopy's one
Concorde
Bristol Freighter - the one with the nose that opens up.
Corsair

My icons would be:-
Britain WWII: Spitfire and Lancaster
USA WWII: P-40 shark mouth, and B-17
Germany WWII: Me109 and He-111
Travelling: 747
70's: F4 and F-14
80's: Harrier, and F-15
Hard work: DC-3, Fletcher and Iroquois

[SJPONeill]

Would the Hindenburg get a look in....with anyone?

[JohnRatzenberger]

Would the Hindenburg get a look in....with anyone?

Yes, simply for the notoriety.
Also Zeppelin for WW1
I doubt the Akron, Macon, etc losses would resonate with many.

To my list, I'd add "Flying Tiger".

[Viking]

i conducted a straw poll of the ladies in my house:

lancaster
vulcan
hawk
jumbo jet
spitfire
tornado
typhoon (the new one)
airbus (any mark)
mustang
hurricane
messerschmidt (probably a 109)
fokker (any one)
de havilland (any one)

i suspect the airbus one could be translated into any airliner that is not a B747 or Concord

[MerlinJones]

I think the language used by our ladies is important. Obviously, marques are irrelevent, so a Messerschmitt is a messerschmitt...no Bf.109E, F or G.
We also guess that the aforementioned refers to the 109, as opposed to the 262, 163 or 210/410.

A "Fokker" is probably the DR.1, although I could imagine any image of any WWI aircraft, bedecked with black crosses, may be referred to as a "Fokker".

Regards,
Bruce

[mattbacon]

I've asked Kate (12-year old daughter); Julie will do hers this afternoon. Jack is the captain of his ATC Squadron's wing-competition-winning aircraft recognition team, so I don't think he counts!

Kate's list of aircraft she would recognise and name (and can draw!)

Spitfire
Boeing 747
Concorde
Lockheed Blackbird
Lancaster
Fokker Triplane
Eurofighter
Red Arrows Hawk

bestest,
M.

[PaulBradley]

SWMBO's initial reaction was "Yeah, right...!" but she came up with the following:

Hawker Hunter
Mustang
Spitfire
Messerschmitt
B-17 Bomber
Constellation
Stealth bomber
Stealth fighter?
Concord
Tomcat
Mig (russian fighter)
Cessna (civilian aircraft)

Some of these are rememberances from my museum days, I'm sure. The Hunter from the book, of course.

A little miffed she didn't remember the Firefly.....

I'll ask Robin later.

[mattbacon]

Julie's list - which may be influenced by having watched "Classic Aeroplanes" over and over when Jack was a LOT younger...

Concorde
Spitfire
Vulcan
Hurricane
Corsair
Wellington
Wessex
Swordfish
Dragon Rapide
Martin Mars
Boeing 737
DC3
Sioux
Chinook
B-52
Blackbird
U-2
Sabre
Lancaster

bestest,
M.

[SJPONeill]

Stealth fighter?

If she's meaning the iconic shape of the F-117 which was flashed on TV screen 24/7 during Gulf 1, it probably qualifies...if she's referring to the Testors F-19 she has probably been paying a lot more attention to your hobby than you may think and thus the 'I'll just slip t into the stash - she'll never know' doctrine may be substantially weakened...

[MerlinJones]

I'm going to expand this to work colleagues this week.

One thing I did discover is that whilst "Spitfire" maybe an iconic aircraft and known, the Beloved couldn't find one on my shelves, in spite of staring over my 74 Squadron and BoB collections.
Then, having had one pointed out to her, the Hurricane, P-40 and Mustang became "Spitfires".

[SJPONeill]

Which is probably historically correct: when someone called 'Achtung Spitfeuer!!' over the geschwader net, I'm sure it had the same meaning and effect whether they were Spits, P-40s or Mustangs...

[ShaunW]

Madame Walker can identify a B747 (admittedly as a "Jumbo Jet"), Concorde, Fokker DR1 ("Red Baron's Aeroplane") but Spitfire and Hurricane were both identified as Spitfires. I was quite surprised at the Fokker. Everything else is just an aeroplane I'm afraid

[PaulBradley]

There are 1/300 scale B-17s out there, Bruce.

[JamesPerrin]

@brews this thinking out load doesn't seem to relate to this thread.

[MerlinJones]

Back on topic, I've been asking a variety of my work colleagues The Question.
Most can come up with names, such as Spitfire and Concorde, but only Concorde is consistently identifiable. Seems the names are more 'iconic' than the actual aircraft themselves.

Regards,
Bruce