I’ll get my coat then ….

Well thats understandable, seeing as how it didn’t come from mainland Europe……I guess you missed the main point.

true enough, but I think it qualifies under the ‘threats to humanity’ section :diablo:

I would imagine that the Whitley was named after the Coventry suburb of Whitley. Didn’t AW have a factory there?

Quite possibly, but AW were originally Tyneside Ship / Locomotive builders, so the North East connection is there too?

So they picked an unheard of town in Somerset over a great capital of the world?

Hmm, just can’t think why …… ! :diablo:

I shoud have been more explicit, as I know the term Flying Fortress was coined by the press (initially for the Boeing B-15?), but I was getting at the point that the manufacturer did apply the name and it was used officially by the RAF.

Just to be really picky – the RAF actually called them the Boeing Fortress Mk I etc …… no ‘Flying’!

Did the RAF ever have another name for the Vultee A35 Vengeance ?

Um yes, one was a fighter for the RAF and then the USAAF, and the other was an attack aircraft for the USAAF, hence completely different designations!

I realise that they had different mission designations, what I am asking is were there any physical differences?

There’s always one!
Take the Grumman Wildcat, in RN service it became the Martlett.
It already had a perfectly good name.

But the Avenger was supposed to have been called the ‘Tarpon’ in RN service and the Hellcat the ‘Gannet’ ……

The DC-3 was known by Douglas as the Douglas Aircraft Company Transport, or DACoTA, and so the RAF adopted that name with a small twist.
Tom.

I thought that they called it the Douglas Sleeper Transport (DST)?

Didn’t Margaret Thatcher say, “All the greatest threats to humanity in the 20th century came from Mainland Europe: Fascism, Communism, Socialism.” Or some such (I paraphrased).

She only missed out ‘Thatcherism’ 😀