Aircraft nicknames - what's your favourite?

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You also can't beat the great double entendre of Ascender ("Ass-ender") for the canard XP-55. Ascender, was an official name, I believe. Was this a deliberate double entendre by the Curtiss design staff or was the double meaning only developed unofficially later?
 
Bent wing bastard for the Corsair. Dont know wether this was a USN, FAA or RNZAF nickname.

Not a nickname but a favourite description of iirc the B52 "It didnt take off it just flew straight and level till the curvature of the Earth took effect"
 
The C-124, Ole Shaky, or 100,000 nuts and bolts flying in formation. So I guess that makes it the big brother of the Avro Anson.
The Hughes TH-55 , Mattel Messerscmitt, though I never knew why.

The Cessna O-2 Skymaster, at NKP where it was first used, we called it the mixmaster.
 
The Fw 190's is my fave, but someone got that one already.

Ju 88 = Maid of All Work
F-8/F8U = Last Gunfighter, The Gator (for its low slung intake)
F-100 = The Hun
F-105 = Thud, Triple Threat (it could bomb you, strafe you or fall on you)
Il-2 = Hunchback, Flying Infantryman
Fi 156 = Criquet
Hs 129 = Safe Cracker
F4U = Hose Nose
F-84 = Ground Loving Whore, World's Fastest Tricycle, The Iron Crowbar
I-16 = Mosca (Spanish for fly, common nickname during Spanish Civil War)
F2A = American Car, Flying Beer Bottle (both Finnish nicknames)
 
I think the F-105 might have the most nick names. Thunderthud, Thud, Triple Threat, Hog, Ultra Hog, Squat Bomber, Lead Sled, and, Another Lead Sled from Republic, because the F-84 was also had Lead Sled as a nick name.
My first duty station in the USAF was Seymour-Johnson AFB, N.C., in 1966, the TAC sqd. stationed there was transitioning from the F-105 to the F-4 as I got there. Those were some happy pilots.
They weren't so happy when they got to Nam, and wished for guns.
 
Spitfire - named by an Air Ministry worker after his quick tempered daughter. Designer R.J Mitchell is quoted as saying: 'that's just the sort of bloody silly name they would give it'
Sorry, but wrong (twice,) it was named by the Vickers chairman, and (according to his son) Mitchell said, "Bloody silly, naming it after a failure," meaning that he didn't like it having the same name as the dud Type 224.
B-36 "Aluminium (sorry, but it's the U.K. spelling) Overcast."
Vulcan "Tin Triangle."
E.E. Lightning "Frightening."
 
Vultee Vindicator-"Wind Indicator"
B26-"One a day in Tampa Bay" "Flying prostitute" (No visible means of support)
B17 "Big ass bird"
Newer, but anyway, F16 "Lawn Dart"
And I like what an ETO pilot called his P47...."Repulsive Thunderbox!"
 
Dang, all the good ones are gone. Not an aircraft but this still makes me smile. Short conversation overheard on board an LST(Landing Ship Tank) on it's way to Normandy on D-Day..."What's LST stand for anyhow?" "Long Slow Target".....silence.

Geo
 

OK folks, enough please!
 
Wow, no kidding, This was just a light-hearted thread on silly aircraft nicknames. Y'all need to step down a bit. It's not like we were debating something serious, like the kill ratio of the '109 vs. the P-51! (Let the fireworks begin!)
 
Excuse me for deleting the (poorly concealed) bad language; it was the Vickers chairman, since he called his daughter a spitfire.
What I distinctly remember reading was Mitchell's comment on hearing of the decision, because it surprised me so much.
IF what I wrote is incorrect, then we have (yet another) case of which author got their facts screwed up...
Mitchell's son might have got it wrong, but he was there, while neither of us were, so I give him the benefit of the doubt. One thought, that you might like to consider, if Mitchell disliked the name so much, why didn't he make the same comment about the similarly-named Type 224?
As I've said, elsewhere, I do research, and pass the results on to others, with the idea that those others might find it useful; if you don't wish to receive that information, I can only suggest that you stop reading my posts.
If the moderators of this site feel that my input is no longer welcome, I'm sure they'll tell me, without resorting to bad language, and, if that happens, I shall go elsewhere.
Finally, please don't call my (deceased) mother a bitch (yes, I do know what SOB stands for.)
 

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