Talk:List of aircraft of the Royal Flying Corps

RFC/RNAS aircraft
Is it intended to differentiate between aircraft operated by the RFC and the RNAS, e.g. by putting the operator(s) in brackets after the aircraft name, or by having two sections in the article or even by having two separate articles? I tnink my preference would be for the first option. Were there any other operators? --TraceyR 14:15, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Oops! I misunderstood the comment that the RFC list "may contain RNAS aircraft"! --TraceyR 18:33, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

There is a separate List of aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service, I removed this from the List of aircraft of the Royal Air Force with the intention of removing the RNAS aircraft so this list will be just RFC. MilborneOne 19:36, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

This list seems to contain items added at random
There are several one-off types (like the B.E.1 and S.E.4) that were prototypes tested at the Royal Aircraft Factory, but as far as I know never taken on to RFC charge. Similarly the "prototypes" list should be restricted to prototype aircraft (like the S.E.2) that were used by a squadron. Is this even a case of confusion between RAF (=Royal Aircraft Factory) and RAF (=Royal Air Force)?? In any case, few of the items currently on the (prototypes) list would meet that one.

Before I charge in and take an axe to the list - is this the consensus - or do we mean something like "all British aircraft of the period, whether they were officially RFC property or not"?


 * This list was originally broken off as a section in the RAF list to better recognise the Royal Flying Corps. It has not really had a good clean-up since with ad-hoc additions. No objection to you having a go but suggest it should really only show aircraft that entered service with the RFC (even if just one aircraft), dont think one of prototypes that did not enter service should be added. Dont agree it should be all British aircraft of the period as that could be misleading as this is the RFC list. MilborneOne (talk) 00:04, 5 November 2008 (UTC)