making good progress here ...
decided to compile an update of
KT550's entertaining "eponymous aircraft and car model" Quiz-Within-A-Quiz
Originally Posted by
KT550
As we've reached a slow down; here's a little quiz to keep you thinking.
Over the years, car and plane manufacturers have used common names for their respective models.
e.g. Chevrolet Greyhound and Cessna Greyhound.
I got to about 50 using U.K., European and U.S. car manufacturers.
General aviation aircraft and airliners are included in the aviation section.
How many can you find?
- "Mustang" -- North American P-51 / F-51 and Ford
- "Catalina" -- Consolidated Vultee PBY-5 (which was actually used in some airline services for awhile after WW II) and Pontiac
- if you add aircraft engines to the mix, there's the "Dart" (Rolls-Royce and Dodge)
- "Greyhound" is also the Navy nickname for the Grumman C-2 COD (Carrier Onboard Delivery) aircraft
- Chevrolet Corvette --> Aerospatiale Corvette --> naval frigate also known as a Corvette
- Ford Bronco --> North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco
- Lockheed Starliner (L-1649) -- Ford
- Lockheed Electra (Model 10, Model 14, and L-188) -- Buick
- Falcon Ford and Dassault
- Hornet AMC and deHavilland, McDonnell-Douglas
- Renault and Sud (Sud Est) Aviation SE.210 -- Caravelle
- Bearcat -- Grumman F8F (WWII-vintage Navy fighter, later operated by the Blue Angels) and Stutz (1920s-1930s)
- American Motors Corp (AMC, formerly Rambler, formerly Nash) and Airspeed -- Ambassador (and the infamous Hindustan Ambassador https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustan_Ambassador)
- Airspeed Oxford. 8751 made https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspeed_Oxford and Morris (1950s, basis of the Hindustan Ambassador)
- Many more Vanguards were made by Standard (UK); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Vanguard than Vickers
- Bristol Cars were a division on Bristol aircraft, so the same name understandable -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Cars; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Aeroplane_Company
- Armstrong :- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Siddeley produced the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstr...eley_Lancaster; AVRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Lancaster;
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Lincoln and the Ford owned Lincoln brand
- Jaguar (car) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEPECAT_Jaguar
- Dauphin/Dauphine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A...SA_360_Dauphin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Dauphine''
- Herald -- The Herald car is best not talked about. Not a high point of British car manufacturing/belligerent unions -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Herald; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley_Page_Dart_Herald
- Spitfire -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Spitfire; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire
- Galaxy Lockheed and Ford
- Caravan Cessna and Dodge
- Ford is useful as it has European and Australian models, among others to use; could also pull out equivalent names once translated. e.g. Merkur (model) or Mercury (brand) for... (an a/c I've never flown). There's also at least another Ford product with the same model name as a U.S. military a/c.
- Oldsmobile manufactured a car called the Aurora. And the Royal Canadian Air Force currently operates the Lockheed CP-140 Aurora which is based on the P-3 Orion which, of course, is based in turn on the L-188 Electra
- BMW M4 and Myasishchev M-4 "Molot" (which NATO called the "Bison") four engine jet bomber
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