But you messed up.
And that killed suspension of disbelief.
In the 3e GURPS supplement, "Funny New Guys" there are magic carpets. It's an alt-history where magic exists and this supplement details that world's Vietnam.
The carpets the Army uses are: LUC-1, UC-23 and AC-05.
I can see where they were headed here. H is the designation for rotary wing (helicopters) so change the H to a C for "carpet" and you're good!
Nope.
C means cargo.
And you don't double up. This is why tankers get a K designation, T means trainer.
Besides, the designation system already has a code for lighter than air vehicles. Z.
For Zeppelin.
So magic carpets should be LUZ-1, UZ-23 and RZ-5 (no preceding zeros!) and R instead of A because it's a recon carpet not an attack carpet. This all assumes that they dumped the established blimp/dirigible numbers and started from 1 again.
And post MacNamara the 'L' would be changed to an 'O' making it the OZ-1. And that's a lot more magical sounding, ain't it?
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