I just found out that yesterday was International Cat Day. So I will salute my favorite cats: Wildcat, Hellcat, Tigercat, Bearcat, Tomcat, Panther, Cougar, Jaguar..... (I think you can figure out the connection. It was part of my life for over 18 years.)
Yeah, I guess you could include that one as well. I have a t-shirt proclaiming Grumman to be The Cat House!
It's interesting how prefixes and suffixes were used by companies. While Grumman was "cat", Republic was "thunder", Douglas was "master", Lockheed was "star" and Boeing was "strato"! (Although the name didn't stick, the Boeing 707 was originally called the Jet Stratoliner.)
If you want to salute cats a bit differently,you could go to the annual cat meat (and dog meat) festival in Yulin,Guanxi,China every June.
If you read the thread, you might have noticed that several aircraft manufacturers name their products along a theme. I was simply adding another theme not previously listed.
You're presuming that the Trojan was named for the horse; I seriously doubt that. If North American had any theme, it came along later in the form of "Sabre", but even that wasn't used that much, even if you consider the F-107 as the "Ultra Sabre". That name was quite unofficial and I never heard it until about 10 years ago, long after the aircraft had become museum pieces. The other corporate themes I mentioned were much more pervasive.
Of course, some manufacturers simply used the same name over and over again. Curtiss had a whole bunch of Hawks, and then they began to add prefixes like Tomahawk and Warhawk. And how many different Corsairs did Vought have before the F4U?
Stretching this even further, when Grumman was in the fire engine business, they named their vehicles the Firecat and Aerialcat!
