Autodidact
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Help me name an ultralight design I'm working on. I've narrowed it down to three choices:
1. Tiger Budgie
2. Mako Canary
3. Zanonia Raptor
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1. Tiger Budgie
2. Mako Canary
3. Zanonia Raptor
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Low Slow Sally?
Now the polls have gotten out of control.
But as a lifelong fan of the late great Dr. Seuss, I would not forgive myself if I failed to mention Slow Joe Crow.
But as a lifelong fan of the late great Dr. Seuss, I would not forgive myself if I failed to mention Slow Joe Crow.
TFF
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Slow Joe Crow sews Sue's socks. What about Mako Raptor or zanonia canary?
pictsidhe
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I've been thinking about starting a thread about aircraft names. Many really don't fit the plane, IMHO. Names like RV6 and VJ24 make sense and fit anything.
An ultralight should have a small, slow name. Raptor is pushing things, even the Zanonia variety.
'Chicken' seems apt. Ungainly birds that struggle into the air. 'Turkey' is maybe too big of a name.
I've provisionally called my design 'Lemming'. Mainly so I can snicker at overnamed ULs that I fly past.
An ultralight should have a small, slow name. Raptor is pushing things, even the Zanonia variety.
'Chicken' seems apt. Ungainly birds that struggle into the air. 'Turkey' is maybe too big of a name.
I've provisionally called my design 'Lemming'. Mainly so I can snicker at overnamed ULs that I fly past.
Hephaestus
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Must call it raptor, just so someone can put the sign in their hangar
"It has been 0 days since the last raptor incident"
My 28,632,176 days sign needs an opposite
"It has been 0 days since the last raptor incident"
My 28,632,176 days sign needs an opposite
Autodidact
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Yeah, Mako Chicken! Low Slow Sally is pretty cool too, I could just use the initials and call it LSS-1 and people might think it stands for Light Super Sport!
Swampyankee
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I can't say I like any of them.
I think you should go for something alliterative or rhyming if you're looking for a two-word name. If you're willing to go to a one-word name, Oklahoma has a lot of birds, but I kind of like Sora.
I think you should go for something alliterative or rhyming if you're looking for a two-word name. If you're willing to go to a one-word name, Oklahoma has a lot of birds, but I kind of like Sora.
Autodidact
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Sora is a pretty cool name, that I think could actually be used. Out of the ones I posted, Tiger Budgie is probably the most realistic (you know, for something that's completely absurd) because a Budgie is a type of Parakeet and there has been an aircraft named Parakeet, and the Tiger part evokes the book Every man a Tiger by Frank J. O'Brien as well as the Tiger Club in Britain. But still...
choppergirl
Banned
"Snow White" that came up recently for a motor glider I thought was a good name... of course, Frog Design used it first as nomenclature for one of their first Macintosh "design languages/themes"
"Jenny" was a good name and so was "Betty (Bomber)". So was "Spitfire". Name it after your girlfriend and you can't go wrong...
pictsidhe
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Spitfire is the best fighter name yet.
Call it Raptor so at least one aircraft by that name actually ends up flying.
Aerowerx
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I would vote for "Canary Raptor".
pictsidhe
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Pleasant peasant pheasant.
Like Go Slow One? Or DoDo (since ultralights are declining in number). Mach None?
Alliteration: Fabulous Fantastic Flying Fun Finder?
Mach None has been taken already, years ago, by Ace R/C. It was a half-scale replica of a full size ".60 size" pattern ship called the Mach One from Midwest Models. Ace made up the .049 size version to use their universal molded foam wings, and called it the Mach None.
If my feeble memory serves, there was also a full size ultralight called Mach None that came later.
If my feeble memory serves, there was also a full size ultralight called Mach None that came later.
pictsidhe
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There's actually a Spruce grouse! That is a must build for someone...
Some of you may cower at the thought, but Quail seems like it would be a good Ultralight name.
Some of you may cower at the thought, but Quail seems like it would be a good Ultralight name.
There is a VW plans-built design named the (Aerosport) Quail. This one has over 1000 trouble-free hours.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosport_Quail#/media/File:Aerosport_Quail.JPG
BJC
I voted for the first one but really prefer to keep things simple. Why not just plain "Budgie" with a little parakeet logo?
Autodidact
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I'm starting to like Budgie. That middle pic is pretty nice looking. This thread started out as an attempt at some humor, but underneath it is a real desire to find a name; in seriousness, I was thinking about Putter or Puttabout, but Budgie is pretty good in comparison.
