06-21-2010, 06:05 PM
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Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
Falstaff ???
Not sure I'd want to name ANY aircraft for a CHEAP swampo-brew beer.
If it flies anything like that slop tasted, it's a sure loser ! 
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I'm a Philistine when it comes to literature and the arts (the proverbial bull in the china shop and I would get along fine together in the same paddock), but I believe the Falstaff the Royal Aeronautical Establishment (RAE) had in mind when they named the rocket may have been a character in one of Shakespeare's plays. |