So I was visiting an RC Slope site (slopeflyer.com), and noticed a model that was recently reviewed, the P-39 AirCobra.
"AirCobra" didn't seem right, so I started an email to Greg Smith, who runs this website, that the name of the plane is "Air<font color="red">a</font id="red">Cobra". Before I clicked "send", I looked it up on the Internets (sic GWB), and found 25,000 hits when I Googled "AirCobra". When I Googled "Air<font color="red">a</font id="red">Cobra", I got 125,000 hits.
That difference between the number of hits between the two spellings seems too close to have had this been a mistake on Greg's part. So I didn't send the email. But it's got me thinking as to why there are two different "common" names for this plane. It must have been something that happened long ago, or the error wouldn't have become so much a part of the culture.
I'm sure one of you Scale guys must know the history of this...
What is a P-39?
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Ed Kettler</i>
<br />The correct spelling is Airacobra.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"><font size="2">Well, yeah, I kinda figured that. But why are 1/5 of the references wrong? Just because Aircobra sounds better?
Just like TV, I trusted the Internets. [;)]</font id="size2">
<br />The correct spelling is Airacobra.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"><font size="2">Well, yeah, I kinda figured that. But why are 1/5 of the references wrong? Just because Aircobra sounds better?
Just like TV, I trusted the Internets. [;)]</font id="size2">