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I like those, @Thunderfinger, will add them to the list. Think you mean Moonraker for the tree sniper.
And I'm recalling Bert Saxby's clumsy effort in Diamonds Are Forever.
Yes, of course MR.
I've decided it's my Thing.
and as an honarable mention the BOAC Monarch flight, as it was in the first citation @RichardTheBruce used from Goldfinger:
The stratocruiser as it was used for the Monarch service.
I updated the snipe list. Still open for suggestions, then I'll move it to Statistics.
1. a black and white or colored crow, noisy
2. a collector of trivial items
3. a perpetrator of useless conversation
Formerly Maggoty-pie, Maggot-the-pie, or simply... Pie. Mag in use as a nickname for Margaret or women in general. Magge tales, tall tales or worse. Old French (Pie). French (Margot, magpie; relates to nickname Margot for Margeurite). Latin (Pica). Sanskrit (Pikah, Indian cuckoo). Old Norse (Spætr). German (Elster, for magpie, compare to Specht for woodpecker, Raben for Raven and Rabenvogel for literally Raven bird). Dutch (Ekster).
Magpie (Corvidae): colorful crows, black and white and usually variations of blue, green. Very intelligent, can learn to speak some words. Absconders (and hoarders) of shiny and useless items. Range through Europe, Asia, the North American West, also Tibet, India, Pakistan. Magpies so named in Australia are a different family altogether.
Holarctic magpies (Pica), black-and-white.
Eurasian magpie (Pica pica), Black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia), Yellow-billed magpie (Pica nuttalli), Asir magpi ( Pica asirensis ), Maghreb magpie (Pica mauritanica), Korean magpie (Pica sericea).
Oriental magpies (Urocissa), blue/green.
Taiwan blue magpie (Urocissa caerulea), Red-billed blue magpie(Urocissa erythrorhyncha), Yellow-billed blue magpie (Urocissa flavirostris), White-winged magpie (Urocissa whiteheadi), Sri Lanka blue magpie (Urocissa ornata).
Oriental magpies (Cissa), blue/green).
Common green magpie[/b], (Cissa chinensis), Indochinese green magpie, (Cissa hypoleuca), Javan green magpie, (Cissa thalassina), Bornean green magpie, (Cissa jefferyi).
Azure-winged magpies (Cyanopica).
Azure-winged magpie (Cyanopica cyanus), Iberian magpie, (Cyanopica cooki).
Less than true magpies: Black magpie, Australian magpie.
Eurasian magpie
Black-billed magpie
Taiwan blue magpie
Yellow-billed magpie
Oriental magpies
Azure-winged magpie
Later used with crows.
Still another version:
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret,
Never to be told.
Eight for a wish,
Nine for a kiss,
Ten for a bird,
You must not miss.
And it has always worked?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Magpie
KLM had the lovely habit of giving bird names to it's aircraft, as you've noticed, so here are the Fokker FXII, nad the Lockheed 14 'Ekster':
The last one crashed in 1938 shortly after take-off, killing all aboard.
Right on, @Thunderfinger. One of my favorite trivia questions, it usually stumps birdwatchers.
Q: What kind of birds are Heckle and Jeckle?
You posted the first, Heckle and Jeckle really come into their own in the second as two male troublemakers.
And not to be confused with Prohías' Spy vs. Spy characters in Mad Magazine. Who are not birds (!).
1. the largest current day bird, strong runner, incapable of flight
2. one who avoids reality
Old French (ostruce and ostriche, "ostrich"). Modern French (autruche). Medieval Latin (ostrica, ostrigius). Latin (avis struthio; from Latin avis, bird, from awi, bird). Late Latin (struthio, from Greek strouthiōn, from strouthos megale or big sparrow). Greek (strouthokamelos, camel-sparrow).
Ostrich (S. camelus): the largest existing bird, a powerful runner but not able to fly. Eats plants, some insects. Gathers in herd of up to 50. Will avoid (run away!) and hide from danger, lying flat to ground. When cornered, fights with its legs. A male may maintain a harem. Farmed for its lean meat, leather, and feathers.
Common ostrich (S. camelus).
North African ostrich or Red-necked ostrich or Barbary ostrich (S. c. camelus).
South African ostrich or Black-necked ostrich or Southern ostrich (S. c. australis).
Masai ostrich or Pink-necked ostrich or East African ostrich (S. c. massaicus).
Arabian ostrich or Syrian ostrich or Middle Eastern ostrich (S. c. syriacus). Extinct 1966.
Somali ostrich or Blue-necked ostrich (S. molybdophanes).
Common ostrich .
North African ostrich or Red-necked ostrich or Barbary ostrich.
South African ostrich or Black-necked ostrich or Southern ostrich.
Masai ostrich or Pink-necked ostrich or East African ostrich.
Arabian ostrich or Syrian ostrich or Middle Eastern ostrich.
Somali ostrich or Blue-necked ostrich.
Before I roll everything up, I want to suggest these.
Any more?
I just don't know which unverse it is.
I do know however that an ostrich was involved in WW!:
Enjoyed Blackadder, @CommanderRoss.
Yeah, "ostrich" doesn't really work with real aircraft. Though some may try.