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21 posted on 09/21/2005 7:54:48 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)

To: Robert A. Cook, PE

A-16 = Hudson

Lockheed Hudson US Air Corps assigned designation was A-28 however the US Air Corps never used the aircraft

A-16 was part of RAAF serial numbers http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research/attack/a4/a4-37.htm

Each service used it own official designation system.

The USAF use a letter and number A20, P51 etc

While the RAF used a official name designation system Boston, Mustang, etc. ...

The US in the early part of the war started to use a official common "nickname" for there aircraft but the letter/number was the official designation

32 posted on 09/21/2005 9:24:36 AM PDT by tophat9000 (This bulletin just in:"Chinese's Fire Drill's" will now be known as "New Orleans' Hurricane Drill's")

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