Gentlemen, your assistance is required.....

[NARSES2]

Short Sydenham.  Something with a bit more 'reality', Sydenham (as well as being a London Borough) is an area of Belfast.  The City Airport is located here & there were both RAF & RN bases here.  Moreover, it has a Short connection, the Harland factory is located there & it's where the Sunderland & Stirling were produced.  I think!

mossie!

sydenham isn't a london borough, its just a district in south london. there is also a sydenham in leamington spa too.

i'll get me coat! 

If we're going to be pendantic then it should be Upper or Lower Sydenham. Sydenham Hill became Crystal Palace when the said building was moved there from Hyde Park. It's just up the road to me.

Short Selsey could be know as Bill ?

[Mossie]

Oh no, what have I started.....

[Brian da Basher]

How about the Supermarine Scrod?

I'll get me coat...

Brian da Basher

[nev]

Australia might well be doable.  The Commonwealth has been used for names before, the Handley Page Hyderabad & Short Singapore are two that come to mind.  American names too, the Douglas Boston & Boeing Washington being examples. They were US aircraft though, the names were only used because no others existed that fitted the convention of naming bombers & transports after citys.

Boston & Washington are both places in England

[kitnut617]

Short Sandford might be appropriate, Sandford in Dorset is where there is/was a Navy base and is also in the top left corner of Poole Harbour, which was a major flying boat base before, during and after the war.

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

I'm partial to the Shorts Southport, not just because it's five miles from home but Southport has very historic links with the flying world - the first ever 'Airshow' in England was held on the beach at Southport in 1907, and a number of Trans Atlantic air races terminated on the same beach in the 1930's - and DORK lives there !

Supermarine Sea Dragon sounds great, but more applicable to a larger airframe IMHO.

Ian

[retro_seventies]

A siren is actually a type of amphibian - small front legs, and no back legs.  We have 3 species here in our new amphibian exhibit.

[Mossie]

So is New York.  It's a small suburb of Whitley Bay.

It's a farm in the village where I grew up too, it's name actually predates the city!  California too, holidayed there long before I crossed the pond, it's a lovely quiet little beach near Great Yarmouth.  IIRC, it's where my Mum sat on a bumble bee..... the sight of my Mum trying to cool her backside in a rockpond will stay with me forever!

A siren is actually a type of amphibian - small front legs, and no back legs.  We have 3 species here in our new amphibian exhibit.

Never knew about those so Googled them, cool little critters!

[Daryl J.]

If the blue/white/red roundel is not hypercritical, one could remember that Laphraoig, The Dalmore, Johnnie Walker, An Cnoc, Clynelish, and friends distill north of the English border so you could have the Short Scotch in a blue/white national emblem.

It's my Friday so some silliness is settling in; love the suggestions so far along with some the presented rationales (rationali???).
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Daryl J.