Controversial airplanes...

[Admiral Beez]

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Yup! Then this wouldn't be fantasy...

We'd probably need another name, as the French matou doesn't sound as good.

Whilst colloquially referred to as such by all CAF personnel and all Canadians, we don't officially use Hornet for the CF-18, because the French frelon is already a NATO helicopter.

 

[pgf_666]

The ultimate Macnamara "pignorantism"!

The guy who replaced the original Thunderbird sports car with the Edsel. 'Nuff said?

 

[tyrodtom]

The guy who replaced the original Thunderbird sports car with the Edsel. 'Nuff said?

The Edsel didn't replace the T-Bird. They made 58 Edsels and 58 T-birds, and every year after they made both, until 1960, when they quit making the Edsel.
They increased the size of the T-bird from a 2 seater to a 4 seater in 58, and sold more 4 seaters each year than they ever had the 2 seaters.

 

[GrauGeist]

Edsel was also it's own division within Ford Motor Company (Lincoln, Mercury, Edsel, Ford) and had nothing to do with Ford's T-Bird.

 

[tyrodtom]

Plus you can't blame the Edsel on Mcnamara , the Edsel wasn't his baby, he didn't even want the extra car line.
He's the one that convinced Henry Ford II to drop the Edsel line in 1960.
Nuff said.