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Comment by chrisseaton | Hacker News Reader

Wow that's a strange choice for a name. Can't think of anything I'd less like to fly in than a caravan. Makes me think of boring trips and cheap flimsy tacky boxes liable to be blown away by the wind.

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To resolve the confusion: that's British usage. In North America, the thing you're thinking of is called a "camper", and the association most Americans have with the word "caravan" is to a Dodge minivan.

> the association most Americans have with the word "caravan" is to a Dodge minivan

For motor vehicles, perhaps. In general if I'm thinking of travel in a caravan it's 19th century wagons.

If it's any consolation, the Cessna Caravan predates the Dodge Caravan by 3 years.

I don't know what a Dodge Caravan is specifically. This is what 'caravan' makes me think of though - https://www.practicalcaravan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/... - not what you'd want to fly in!

this is what i was thinking

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=caravan+waggon&t=brave&iar=images&...

Why is everyone thinking of cars? There is a far more picturesque and older meaning of the word.

http://remarkablejourneys.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Day...

Because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Caravan

They were immensely popular throughout the 90s and early 2000s.

we drove a dodge caravan around the country a number of times while i was a kid.

To be fair, Cessna had the name before Chrysler co-opted it

Caravans have been a thing before either Cessna or Chrysler were founded.

Light aircraft aren't really known for having enlightening names.

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