I've read that Arapaho was not an official name for the Bell ARH-70. If that's true, I wonder if the name Arapaho will be given to the Sikorsky S-97?
I don't know whether the name Arapaho was officially adopted or not before the program was canned, but I doubt it would be immediately recycled given its association with the ARH-70. At any rate, S-97 won't get an official nickname unless the Army buys some. For now they're sticking to the "Raider" marketing name.Triton said:I've read that Arapaho was not an official name for the Bell ARH-70. If that's true, I wonder if the name Arapaho will be given to the Sikorsky S-97?
Moose said:I don't know whether the name Arapaho was officially adopted or not before the program was canned, but I doubt it would be immediately recycled given its association with the ARH-70. At any rate, S-97 won't get an official nickname unless the Army buys some. For now they're sticking to the "Raider" marketing name.
sferrin said:Ute.
TomS said:
sferrin said:Dang. Seems like the more prominent tribes have been used at one point or another. Wouldn't mind a Cheyenne 2 if they bought the S-97 though.
Triton said:sferrin said:Dang. Seems like the more prominent tribes have been used at one point or another. Wouldn't mind a Cheyenne 2 if they bought the S-97 though.
Maybe if your name selection criterion for Army rotorcraft is belligerent tribes from the Plains Indian Wars.
sferrin said:Which prominent non-belligerent tribes have never had anything named for them?
Triton said:sferrin said:Which prominent non-belligerent tribes have never had anything named for them?
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Skyblazer said:To the best of my knowledge there have never been Army aircraft or helos by the names Papoose, Cherokee, Navajo, Pocono or Pawnee (all were used by Piper for civilian types). Now of course some of these were belligerent tribes and some were not.
Triton said:Skyblazer said:To the best of my knowledge there have never been Army aircraft or helos by the names Papoose, Cherokee, Navajo, Pocono or Pawnee (all were used by Piper for civilian types). Now of course some of these were belligerent tribes and some were not.
Papoose comes from the Algonquian papoos meaning "child". I think you meant Palouse.
The "American Indian Wars" page on Wikipedia has a number of Native American tribes and bands that have not had fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft named for them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars
Some additional tribe and Native American band names for consideration: Chickamauga, Seminole, Winnebago, Muscogee (Creek), Arikara, Jicarilla, Yavapai (Tonto), Yuma, Cahuilla, Yakama (formerly spelled Yakima), Nisqually, Muckleshoot, Puyallup, Klickitat, Coeur d’Alene, Spokane, Palouse, Paiute, Hualapai, Snake, Modoc, Nez Perce, Bannock, Shoshone, Crow, Yaqui, Delaware (Lenape), Ojibwe, Shawnee, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora, Cayuga, Miami, Kickapoo, Wabash, Havasupai, Hopi, Goshute, Blackfoot, Pueblo, Acoma, Isleta, Jemez, Zuni, Wyandot, Potawatomi, Tlingit, Pima, Tulalip, Salish, Omaha, Yurok, Klamath, Quinault, Lummi.
Skyblazer said:Thanks for researching the subject. Please note that Shawnee, Creek and Seneca have already been used by the Army, for the H-21, H-67 and H-41, respectively.
Kiltonge said:So Pawnee was also a planned assignment, for this.
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To the best of my knowledge there have never been Army aircraft or helos by the names Papoose, Cherokee, Navajo, Pocono or Pawnee (all were used by Piper for civilian types). Now of course some of these were belligerent tribes and some were not.