Talk:1922 United States Navy aircraft designation system

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This article is a work in progress. In particular, links need to be added. Many thanks to Emmanuel Gustin and Andreas Parsch, of whose work this is a summary. Earthworm Makarov 05:07, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

If I may suggest, the section that lists the various abbreviations should probably be converted to a table, with information on when the designations were created and when they were superseded. N, for example, denoted trainer from something like 1922-1948, when it was superseded by T, which was used until '62. I assume that Gustin and Parsch's work have this information, but if they don't a site—albeit a less reputable one—that does is http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/d/o/dob104/aviation/us/index.html. Karl Dickman ^talk 06:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I'd live to see a table, and that was something I was thinking of doing, but I don't know how. I'll try to figure it out this week. If you want to do it, go ahead, I'd love to see how it works. I'm sure the Manufacturer dsignations could use a table as well, and some of those changed over time. McDonnnel, for instance, originally had D, but was subsequently moved to H, but thenmerged with Douglas which had D. Small world. Anyway thanks for the input.Earthworm Makarov 19:38, 21 January 2007 (UTC)