While my colleague Steve Trimble over on The DEW Line gets his knickers in a twist over Iranian fighter developments, I am left wondering why their names seem to come from Harry Potter books. Azarakhsh? Perhaps J K Rowling is a closet plane spotter.
What I can't understand is why pick from Potter when you could use any one of the great fighter names from history: Vildebeest (Vickers, 1928), Gnatsnapper (Gloster, 1928), Hedgehog (Hawker, 1924), Tabloid (Sopwith, 1913), Dormouse (de Havilland, 1923), Armadillo (Armstrong Whitworth, 1918).
I could go on...and on.
Azarakhsh . . .
. . . . . .Tabloid
(Thanks to the British Aircraft Directory for the info and pic)
Comments (3)
Ok, Mr. Fancy-Pants, while I'm untwisting my knickers, answer this question: what is obviously changed (presumably, via photoshop) on the F-5F airframe you are displaying?
Posted by Stephen Trimble | August 8, 2007 2:48 AM
Posted on August 8, 2007 02:48
Fighter development by Photoshop, powered by Google - but no less believable than any of the other internet "images" of the Azarakhsh. Looks like F-4 inlets on a scaled-up F-5.
Posted by The Woracle | August 8, 2007 4:23 PM
Posted on August 8, 2007 16:23
You bunch of dickheads!
Posted by Anonymous | January 31, 2008 12:49 AM
Posted on January 31, 2008 00:49