An interesting tidbit about the name of McFarland's plane is that he was making fun of Bob Palmer's Smoothie model's name at the time (an inside joke between himself and Bob, whose personal nickname was "Smoothy" or Smoothie). That story was told by George A. in his shop, on several occasions. And the original name of the Shark was something related in one way or another, to George's Nobler ("Humbler", I think I've been told).