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Re:Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial a... by LeifCarrotson on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @07:06AM (#19613419)
Funny how they were named by "pilots who first saw them from the air in the 1920s" and not by the people who built them.
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Re:Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial a... by joosters on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @07:26AM (#19613528)
Since they were abandoned about 4000 years ago, I'd imagine that it's quite hard to find any records of their original name...
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Re:Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial a... by nkrisc on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @08:26AM (#19613878)
Presumably the people who built them didn't call them "desert kites." I think it's pretty clear the author was referring to that name when pilots in the 1920s were said to have named them.
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Re:Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial a... by rtkwe on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @11:14AM (#19615459)
Writing and history were pretty new at the time too so we probably don't even have a record of what they were called by the people who used them if they ever wrote it down to begin with.
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