User talk:Derekbridges

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Cheers and good luck, Ingoolemo talk 15:52, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nice Work

Out of curiousity, what reference are you using? McNeight 02:01, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

And, I meant your work on List of military aircraft of the United States. McNeight 02:22, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Primarily, I used my own page, which is the link given at the bottom, under References and External Links. I compiled that from a number of books and webpages. The best websites are probably Andreas Parsch's page, Joe Baugher's page, and Aerofiles. The Yahoo web group on military aviation designations is very good too. Derekbridges 18:28, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of military aircraft of the United States Changes

Why the changes on List of military aircraft of the United States for Liaison and Utility? L-26 can be traced to all three companies, and is there any real difference between linking to U-22 Bonanza versus Beechcraft Bonanza? It looks like there is some kind of standard you are working off of. McNeight 21:19, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Two issues here: for the L-26, I cut the list of companies down to the original name of the company when the designation was given. I hate to see things like Boeing F-15 Eagle when it should be McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. By looking at the McDonnell Douglas page, you can see that Boeing owns them now. The way you listed the companies was fine, in my opinion, since you had all of the companies, but it looks cleaner without losing any information if you just use the original company. It's not based on any standard I know of, other than my personal preference. (Of course, the original company I put in for the L-26 may be wrong, but I think it's right based on what I could find.)
For the U-22 Bonanza, I changed the link since it redirects to Beechcraft Bonanza anyway. You can change it back if you want, but I don't see any reason to unless you're going to create a U-22 Bonanza page. One other thing that I like to nitpick about is the military name vs. the civilian name - I don't think the U-22 was called the Bonanza in military service. I can't find any reference one way or the other, so I left it as is. Derekbridges 01:07, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
For the L-26, that's completely understandable. There really isn't a reason to list a second manufacturer unless they were a significant contributor to the original design, like the Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey. Part of what I didn't like about the three manufacturers for the Aero Commander is that two of them were stubs, but that shouldn't be imposed on the aircraft listing.
For the U-22 Bonanza, I agree that the military name isn't automatically going to be the same as the civilian name. In fact, I now remember that the U-22 was really used as a sensor platform in Vietnam as the QU-22 "Pave Eagle" [1] [2]. And the YAU-22 PAVE COIN evaluation aircraft (Bonanza with hardpoints) just freaks me out.
I've noticed however that there are a number of page redirects such as U-22 Bonanza and U-16 Albatross that seem to be for search-engine reference only. McNeight 02:01, 17 December 2005 (UTC)