On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 22:16:51 -0700, "Jay Beckman"
wrote:

"George Patterson" wrote in message
news:I4une.4992$Sl5.2242@trndny08...

snippage

"My father worked on the Martin assembly line in Baltimore."

Hence the B26's other nickname: "The Baltimore Wh*re"

;O)

The various nicknames such as the above "Baltimore Whore" and"The
Flying Prostitute", referred to the airplanes ability to seemingly
"fly without any visible means of support", due to it's
extraordinarily short pair of wings. :-D

Corky Scott