The BAe Tern

[Old Wombat]

For the bird-nuts ornithologically gifted or, perhaps, the ornithologically ignorant (such as me), a list of terns (nicked from Wikipedia);

According the mtDNA studies and review by Bridge et al,[4] the genera and species of terns are as follows:

    Genera Anous, Procelsterna, Gygis - noddies
        Brown Noddy Anous stolidus
        Black Noddy Anous minutus
        Lesser Noddy Anous tenuirostris
        Blue Noddy Procelsterna cerulea
        Grey Noddy Procelsterna albivitta
        White Tern Gygis alba

    Genus Onychoprion - "brown-backed" terns
        Spectacled Tern Onychoprion lunatus
        Bridled Tern Onychoprion anaethetus
        Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus
        Aleutian Tern Onychoprion aleuticus

    Genus Sternula - little white terns
        Fairy Tern Sternula nereis
        Damara Tern Sternula balaenarum
        Little Tern Sternula albifrons
        Saunders's Tern Sternula saundersi (formerly considered a subspecies of Little Tern)
        Least Tern Sternula antillarum (formerly considered a subspecies of Little Tern)
        Yellow-billed Tern Sternula superciliaris
        Peruvian Tern Sternula lorata

    Genus Phaetusa - Large-billed Tern
        Large-billed Tern Phaetusa simplex

    Genus Hydroprogne - Caspian Tern
        Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia

    Genus Gelochelidon - Gull-billed Tern
        Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica

    Genus Larosterna - Inca Tern
        Inca Tern Larosterna inca

    Genus Chlidonias - marsh terns
        Black Tern Chlidonias niger
        White-winged Tern or White-winged Black Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
        Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus
        Black-fronted Tern Chlidonias albostriatus (ex-Sterna albostriata)

    Genus Thalasseus - crested terns
        Lesser Crested Tern Thalasseus bengalensis
        Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
        Greater Crested Tern or Swift Tern, Thalasseus bergii
        Chinese Crested Tern Thalasseus bernsteini
        Elegant Tern Thalasseus elegans
        Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis

    Genus Sterna - large white terns
        Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
        Snowy-crowned Tern Sterna trudeaui
        Common Tern Sterna hirundo
        Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii
        White-fronted Tern Sterna striata
        Black-naped Tern Sterna sumatrana
        South American Tern Sterna hirundinacea
        Antarctic Tern Sterna vittata
        Kerguelen Tern Sterna virgata
        Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
        River Tern Sterna aurantia
        Black-bellied Tern Sterna acuticauda (possibly Chlidonias)
        White-cheeked Tern Sterna repressa (possibly Chlidonias)

For reference, obviously...

[Go4fun]

This whole discussion is Terning in a very disturbing direction. 
Even I am having a hard time coming up with a different tern on how to use these fine airships.

[Mr.Creak]

I just had a momentary nasty tern - I thought someone was punning.

[Go4fun]

I have no idea what this looks like to start with. Any Pics available?

[Go4fun]

I have no idea what this looks like to start with. Any Pics available?

Okay I found a picture under Strikemaster. Sort of like the T-37 Dragonfly over here. That should "Haul the Mail"!

[Rheged]

I have no idea what this looks like to start with. Any Pics available?

Okay I found a picture under Strikemaster. Sort of like the T-37 Dragonfly over here. That should "Haul the Mail"!

Good, now imagine one of these with an arrestor hook and  offset single cockpit.   You may then attempt to TERN it into a plastic model........or add to the back-story if that's what TERNS you on.

[Acree]

Whiskered Tern = EW variant
Sooty Tern = firefighter (or firebomber spotter plane)
Bridled Tern = target tug?
Caspian Tern = Azerbaijan variant
Inca Tern = Peruvian variant
River Tern = floatplane river patrol variant

[Old Wombat]

Spectacled Tern = Photo Reconn.
Noddy = Pacific Islands variant (lots of noddy's in the Pacific/Oceania region), perhaps also used in the Caribbean (where they also have quite a few noddy's)

[Go4fun]

A Postal Tern?

A Tern for the worse?

[bobbo]

Apparently, we're leaving no stone unterned . . .

bobbo

(Sorry, I couldn't resist the temptation!)

[Old Wombat]

... snip ...
Inca Tern = Peruvian variant
... snip ...

But there already exists a Peruvian Tern Sternula lorata

(Inca Tern Larosterna inca)

[Weaver]

Apparently, we're leaving no stone unterned . . .

bobbo

(Sorry, I couldn't resist the temptation!)

Once upon a time, one of the Honduran aircraft flew an anti-drug mission, using napalm to burn a marijuana plantation. Unfortunately, the plantation was near the airbase and the wind changed after the fire was set, thus blowing the resulting smoke across the base with "unfortunate" effects, and leaving.....











.........wait for it, wait for it you 'orrible little man.........
















...........no tern unstoned!


Thank you, thank you, and goodnight (ouch)........

[PR19_Kit]

...........no tern unstoned!


Thank you, thank you, and goodnight (ouch)........

Hehehe, NICE one! 

[Thorvic]

Ideal markings for it here 

http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MA7260

897 Sqdn FAA

[Acree]

"But there already exists a Peruvian Tern Sternula lorata"

Whoops, completely missed that one!

But I'll add the obvious Chinese Tern and the slightly less obvious Aleutian Tern for the Alaska ANG (fishery patrols of the Aleutian chain? - I'd want another engine!)

Chuck