Talk:Akaflieg Stuttgart fs33

Designations
Historically the designations were published as FS-nn. I shall change the list of aircraft entries and make sure re-directs are in place as required to bring everything up to date.--Petebutt (talk) 09:23, 23 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello Petebutt. In internal documentations and literature (including the 50 year book published in 1976 and flight handbooks), the aircraft are all given designations in the "fs"nn"" format. On the other hand, I have found the format you mentioned multiple times in online sources. Nevertheless, I cannot confirm where said format came about. Thank you very much for adding the redirect pages, you've been a great help. On the other hand, I will undo a change you made (adding the nickname of the aircraft to the article's title) to this page to maintain consistency with the articles for the other prototypes and for most German aircraft (where it seems the nicknames aren't added to the title).--Hardtofindausername (talk) 18:56, 26 August 2019 (UTC)


 * So I've done a bit of digging. Documents from the 1930s and 40s seem to use the FS "nn" (without the hyphen) format and indeed, this format seems to be used in documents for the fs23 (which first flew in '66) as well as in the 40 year book published in the same year. In the above mentioned 50 year book, the fs-"nn" format seems to be used, and documents for the fs26 and fs28 (for which work was done in the late 60s and early 70s) seem to be quite inconsistent, using both the fs-"nn" and the fs"nn" (with or w/o the space in between) format in approximately equal amounts. It seems that the Akaflieg Stuttgart finally settled on the fs "nn" format for publications in their 60 year book (1986), and this remains the current "official" format for prototypes from Stuttgart.


 * The 75 year book (1997) of the Idaflieg however (which, while definitely not written purely by members from Stuttgart was definitely made with their support) returns to this inconsistent usage of either the fs-"nn" or the fs "nn" format.


 * In internal documentations for more recent prototypes (fs32, fs33, and fs35) though, the fs-"nn" format is not so rarely used (generally in technical drawings).


 * Outside of the internet, I have rarely seen the FS-"nn" format however, once in a document from the 1930s, and one from the 1980s. The latter case however was in a document's title which was written with all caps, so I'd take that with a grain of salt. The very first permit-to-fly issued to the fs33 in 1998 also named it as "FS-33," though all subsequent PTFs used the "fs-33" format, before switching to "fs33" sometime around 2002.


 * I hope this helps shed a light on a highly irrelevant topic. Have a good one! --Hardtofindausername (talk) 13:08, 05 January 2020 (UTC)