Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1919 — THEY ARE NOT NANCY BOATS [ARTICLE]

THEY ARE NOT NANCY BOATS

What the "NC" Stands for as Applied to U. S. Seaplanes. Trepassey, $. F., May 15.—Don’t call the American seaplanes “Nancy boats” any more if you want to keep In the good graces of navy aviators. • Everybody in the air service, especially the crews of the Atlantic flyers, objects emphatically to such effeminate nomenclature. There is nothing Nancyish about the big machines and the popular title is deemed a lubberly misnomer for these big he-man planes? The official designation NC is derived from the full name Navy-Curtlss seaplanes, but 'if that’s too large a mouthful, you may call them “Ency planes,” as the pilots do, and no service man will object but you might as well call a doughboy a "Sammy” as to call one of the trans-Atlantic flyers , a “Nancy.”