He means it breathes air and not liquid oxygen.
It intakes air from the atmosphere and uses it to fuel combustion rather then relying on liquid oxygen like a rocket.
The F18 Hornet and F18 Super Hornet. Also Panzer tanks which mean panther in German. I guess a much earlier military strategy would have been the “testudo” meaning tortoise in Latin.
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What happened here?
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Awesome choices!!! Idk this would attract so many people!!
What did he say? It says post is hidden. Please tell me what he said. He posted a weird comment before.
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Another WW1 aircraft is the German “taube” which think means dove. Strangely peacenik name for a military aircraft,
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Cobra helicopters
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A post is hidden because it’s deemed inappropriate. Therefore it’s not appropriate for someone else to repeat.
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The MiG-25 Foxbat supersonic interceptor and the Fairchild A-10 Warthog ground support fighter
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DHC-3 otter. a civilian aircraft. also the DHC-4 Caribou from the same company.
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Hey guys, this is devolving into a discussion of vehicles, and not nature. In my opinion the link to nature is rather weak. Perhaps you can discuss why these machines might have been given their names? Are there real similarities between the machines’ function and their namesakes?
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No, it’s not weak. How do you think they got their names?
Kind of a similarity.
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I think you’re rather new to the forum, welcome…
Here’s a tip on responding: you can reply to several people at once using quotes instead of individual replies which makes the thread unnecessarily long.
(I know there are more eloquent ways to say it, I tend to be blunt and do not mean it offensively or critically.)
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Thank you! How do I quote?
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Thanks for being blunt. People tend to get technical and I’m like, what the hail you say? 
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I figured it out!! Thanks for being kind!
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Yes. The Sopwith Camel, for example, is named after a hump on the airplane.
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