Reindeer challenge

[tigercat]

Challenge is to describe new aircraft / helicopter or armed vehicles or softskins for your armed  forces they can be entirely fictitious or New upgrades or variants . Only catch is they have to be named after Santa's reindeer

[JayBee]

Tricky but :

Dasher
So something with a very good acceleration.
Saunders Roe SR 53.
Goodyear F2G Corsair

Dancer
Something very agile.

Prancer,
Something very agile.

Vixen,
Already taken by De Havilland.

Comet,
Again, already taken by De Haviland.

Cupid
?

Donner
A tasty idea, but what?

Blitzen
Sounds a bit too Third Reich.

Rudolf
It has got to have a red nose !!!!!


Then of course there is Olive, "The Other Reindeer".

[Rheged]

Might I respectfully suggest that making a Rutland Reindeer would be an interesting variant of this challenge.

http://www.classicmoviefavorites.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/No-highway-in-the-sky-12.jpg

Neville Shute :No Highway

[tigercat]

Cupid sounds like it could be a cruiser tank maybe an AA variant given the arrows

[kerick]

Might I respectfully suggest that making a Rutland Reindeer would be an interesting variant of this challenge.

http://www.classicmoviefavorites.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/No-highway-in-the-sky-12.jpg

Neville Shute :No Highway

This looks believable until you look at the tail!?

[scooter]

Donner
A tasty idea, but what?

Certainly *not* a train

[tigercat]

Donner
A tasty idea, but what?

Certainly *not* a train

NAAFI Wagon

[AS.12]

There was once a Cupid aeroplane, a little two-seat Gipsy-powered racer in the 1930s.

Edit: there it is!

http://aviadejavu.ru/Site/Crafts/Craft34624.htm

[Old Wombat]

As the translations for "Donner" and "Blitzen" are "Thunder" & "Lightning" respectively, I think there are far more options than you may think at first glance.

[Dizzyfugu]

"Blitzen" is, BTW, a crappy translation, and has it ever been since the  "Blitzen Benz" nickname for the LSR car. "Blitz" is a better choice.

[Old Wombat]

I was actually pondering that as I wrote.

Unfortunately I didn't write the original, 'coz they would have all been in English (local translations are the prerogative of the locals) & a lot of those names are ... well ... what comes out of living tripe.

[scooter]

As the translations for "Donner" and "Blitzen" are "Thunder" & "Lightning" respectively, I think there are far more options than you may think at first glance.

Dinner is also the name of an (in)famous wagon train...that lent itself to the pass they were snowed in, the lake and nearby town...

Which is why Tigercat went with NAAFI wagon (or AAFES roach coach)

[AS.12]

Flight from February 1960 discusses the marvellously-named Donner Scientific Co Jerkmeter

Sometimes I wish I had one of those to lend to my lady-friends...

[tigercat]

Was there ever a De  Havilland Vixen  or was it always just the Sea Variant .

[AS.12]

Was there ever a De  Havilland Vixen  or was it always just the Sea Variant .

The DH.110 wasn't publicly named but by the time it passed to Hawker-Siddelley control the land-based variant was 'back-named' to HS.110 Vixen.

There was also a Vickers Vixen in the mid-1920s.