Here we goo

[Ian Warren]

[Ian Warren]

Ian, you do know that the Air Ministry was considering naming what became the Spitfire the Shrew.

QUOTE (Wikipedia)

The Air Ministry submitted a list of possible names to Vickers-Armstrongs for the new aircraft, now known as the Type 300. One of these was the improbable Shrew. The name Spitfire was suggested by Sir Robert McLean, director of Vickers-Armstrongs at the time, who called his spirited elder daughter Annie Penrose "a little spitfire". The word dates from Elizabethan times and refers to a fiery, ferocious type of person; at the time it usually meant a girl or woman of that temperament. The name had previously been used unofficially for Mitchell's earlier F7/30 Type 224 design. Mitchell is reported to have said it was "just the sort of bloody silly name they would choose".[/quote]

[Ian Warren]

Good on ya Blackie , nothing like a little research , your the dude wrecked to be shrewed