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Group: aus.aviation · Group Profile
Author: Ned
Date: Jul 23, 2007 05:44

On Jul 22, 10:01 pm, nos...@usenet.fake (Brian) wrote:
> This was sent to me in an email. Quite funny :)
> Anybody know any others not listed here?
>
> Brian
Good post Brian - even if some of them, such as the A320 seem more
than
a little contrived rather than generally accepted nicks.

When the Bae-146 has some 20+ names attached then they are hardly
qualify as nicknames. Witty comments in a crew room or bar room
perhaps
- but if it has no enduring acceptance, recognition or usage then it
hardly a qualifies as a classic nickname in the way that say Gooney
Bird does.

The Essendon Bristol Freighters (APEC?) were Frighteners - not
Freighteners. Especially after one lost a wing in Central Australia.

A few more I recall offhand which I'm sure Google can ID for those
who
may be interested -
Lawn Dart
Cadillac of the Skies
Flying Prostitute
Gabelschwanz Teufel
Heinemann's Hotrod
McNamara's Switchblade
Tante Ju
Emil, Gustav etc variants - maybe that was their official designation
rather than nicks - not sure.
Aluminum Overcast
Shed aka Irish Concorde
Spark Vark
Widowmaker
Rhino aka Louisville Slugger aka Eisenschwein
Jug

There are many more not on your list Brian, mainly military ones
which
have appeared on various threads over the years.

God spare me another Fat Albert though - it has been done to death by
so
many copy cats over the years including even the USN Blue Angels and
the RAF.

The original *real* Fat Albert was the B-747-100 series.

Cheers
Ned
>
> A10: Warthog
> A319: Microbus
> A320: MiniBus, NintendoJet, ScareBus, Chainsaw, Deathjet, Freddie Kruegers
> wet dream, Toulouse Grasscutter, The Strimmer
> (What's the difference between an A320 and a beaver? 4000 trees per hour.)
> A320 is known as 'The John Wayne' Because they 'Chop down trees, move
> mountains and kill Indians!!'
> A380: Double Decker Bus, Megabus
> Alouette: Chicken chaser
> AT6 Harvard: Halfard.
> AW62 Argosy: Whistling Wheelbarrow, Whistling Tit
> BAC 111:Pocket rocket.
> BAe146: Viscount 900, Smurfjet with 5 APU's, The Gas Chamber, Bumble-et,
> Baby Jumbo, Bring Another Engine, 1-4-Sick, submarine- low slow and out of
> sight, Airborne Auschwitz, Tonka Toy, 4 oil leaks connected by an
> electrical fault, The Quadra-Puff, Lead Sled, Mini Galaxy, Sky Dozer,
> Fisher Price 747, "1 aeroplane, 4 engines, needs 6", The Slug, Toxic
> Terror, Muffler (Because all the noise is on the inside), Fruit Bat,
> Flying cockroach.
> BAe ATP: Advanced/Another Technical Problem, The Parrot (cos it's just a
> big Budgie), Ancient Technology Perpetuated, Bat Pee, Skoda, 80p, Wigwam
> (A TeePee).
> BAe Harrier: Leapin'Heap
> BAe Jetstream: Junkstream, Wetdream, Soda-stream.
> Bristol Beaufighter: Whispering Death
> Beech 18: Flying snag
> Beech 99: 99-Liner
> Beech Baron: Ball tearer
> Beech Bonanza: Doctor killer (its reputation as such is ubiquitous)
> Beech 200: Super K
> Beech 1900: Flipper, Dolphin, Stonefish
> Beech T-34: Radial Interceptor
> Bell 206: Deathranger, Hydraulic palmtree
> Beverly: Flying Longhouse
> Bristol 188: The Mayfly
> Bristol Britannia: The Whispering Giant (Was this the original WG?),
> Freighter version: The Whispering Warehouse
> Bristol Freighter: Freightener
> B707: Slush bucket, Water wagon
> B727: 3 holer, Tri-jet, Trisaurus, Triple crome-plated stovepipe
> B737: Tin mouse, Maggot, Pocket Rocket Socket, FLUF (Fat Little Ugly
> F**cker), Light Twin, Baby Boeing, Fat Freddy, Guppy, Pig, Bobby (BOeing
> BaBY).
> B747: Jumbo Jet, Whale, The Valiant, Upstairs and Downstairs, Lump.
> B747SP: Short Plane, Stupid Purchase.
> B757: Stick Insect, AtariFerrari, Slippery Snake
> B767: Dumpster, Slug
> B777: B737 on steroids, Cripple Seven (I.F.E. Problems??), Bigfoot
> B24: The Crystal Shithouse
> B52: BUMF (Big Ugly Mother f***er) or BUFF. (Big Ugly Fat F****er)
> BN 2 Islander: 225 - 2 wings, 2 engines(?) 5 Wheels, Slander, Bongo
> BN 2A Trislander: Try Harder, Bloody Nice Aircraft (!), Clockwork TriStar
> CA-15 Winjeel: The Ginwheel
> Casa: Christ A Sh***y Aeroplane
> Cessna 150: One Filthy, the buck and a half, Cesspit
> Cessna A150 Aerobat: Aerosplat
> Cessna 172 Cutlass: Strutless, Gutless
> Cessna 177 Cardinal: The Pontif
> Cessna 207: Crowdkiller, Slug, Moneymaker
> Cessna 210 Centurian: Coffin
> Cessna 337 Sky Master: Sky Maggot, Push-me-Pull-you, Mix Master, Bug
> Smasher, Push-me-Pull-me, Blow-me-Suck-me.
> Cessna 402 Utiliner: Undyliner.
> Cessna Citation: Levitation, Crustacean, Mutation, Slowtation, Nearjet,
> Bugjet
> CF100: The Lead Sled
> CT-4A: (which was painted bright yellow and green in Oz Air Farce service)
> - the Plastic Parrot
> DC 3: Dakotasaurus Rex, Gooney Bird.
> DC 6: Douglasaurus Rex.
> DC-8: DC Late, Old Smokey, Greasy8, Death Cruiser, Whiney Bird
> DC 9: Greasy 9, Diesel 9, Pocket Rocket (series 10/15 only), DC3-GT
> DC 10: Diesel 10, Death Cruiser 10, Crowd Killer
> MD 11: More Death 2, I also like 'Scud' for the MD-11, once you launched
> it, you were not sure were it was going to land.
> DH 82 Tiger Moth: Terror Moth.
> DH Comet: Vomit
> DHC 1 Chipmonk: Chippie, Chukmonk.
> DHC 4 Caribou: The Gravel Truck ("The only aircraft known to man that
> could suffer a birdstrike from behind".)
> DHC 6 Twin Otter: Tin Otter, Twin Rotter, Twotter, Stoneboat
> DHC 8 Dash Eight: Dash Late
> DO 328: Dork
> DO 328J: Dorkjet
> EMB110 Bandierante: Bandit, Randy Banty
> EMB120 Brasillia: Garbage Can, Brakillya
> EMB145: Jungle Jet, Barbie Jet, The Windows 98 Plane (seems like you spend
> more time rebooting the aircraft than actually flying it), Bendy Jet,
> Emb180 (taxi to the runway, then 180 for taxi back to ramp)
> F27: The Dutch Dog Whistle, Whistle Pig, The Converter - (ie, it converted
> fuel into noise). F50: F**kin' Fifty
> F28: WhisperJet
> Fokker 100: The Scud Because they point them at Europe and they don't come
> back!, Dutch Oven (lousy air conditioning)
> FA 18: Bug, Rhino
> F-100 Hun
> F-102 Deuce
> F-105 The Thud
> F-111: Aardvark, The Pig
> Fouga: Dog-whistle, Converter
> HS125: Pocket rocket
> HS748: Paraffin Budgie, the Draggie, The Twenty Ton Dog Whistle.
> HS Trident: Rodent.
> Gloster Meteor: Meatbox
> Gulfstream I: G-String, G-Once
> Gulfstream IV: Fourskin
> IAI Westwind: Lead Sled, Jew Canoe, Heebjet, Bagel Bomber, Yom Kippur
> Clipper
> Katana DA20: Flying sperm
> Lake Amphibian: Doctor Killer
> LearJet: FearJet, Noisemaker
> L Jetstar: Lawn Dart
> L1011 TriStar: Bistar (Had so many RB211-22B failures), El-10-Elemon,
> FrightStar, Tritanic, Swamp Eater, Swamp Buggy
> C130 Hercules: Fat Albert, Trash hauler, Herkybird
> MD 11: Mad Dog
> MD 80: Mad Dog 80
> MD 95: John Holmes condom
> Metroliner: San-Antonio sewerpipe, Texas Sewer Pipe, Death pencil, The
> Screamin Weenie, Texas Lawn Dart, Swetro (in the summer), Baltimore Whore
> (no visible means of support, skinny lil 'ol wings), Terror Tube, "That
> noisy fucking thing", Widow maker, Kerosene Crowbar.
> Mohawk 298/Nord 262: Pteradactyl
> MU-2: Widow Maker, Hiroshima Screamer, Rice Rocket, Kill You - 2
> N24 Nomad: Go-mad, Gonad
> Partenavia: Part-of-Mafia, Partial Aviator, Part Banana
> PA-18 Tri Pacer: Pie Chaser
> PA-23 Aztec: Az-Truck
> PA-28 Arrow: Sparrow
> PA-28 Cherokee: Cherry Tree
> PA-28 Warrior: Worrier
> PA-31 Navajo: Never-go, Have-a-go
> PA-38 Tomahawk: Traumahawk, Terrahawk, SpinMaster
> PA-44 Seminole: Semenhole
> PA-60: ScareOstar.
> PC12: Platypus.
> PBY 5 Catalina: Pigboat, Dumbo.
> RJ70/100: Real Jet
> SAAB J29: Flying Barrel
> S3 Viking: Hoover
> Shackleton: Shacklecaster
> Shorts Belfast: Belslug
> Shorts Sandringham: The Triple Decker Bus
> Shorts Skyvan: The Whispering Nissan Hut
> Shorts 330: The Two Tailed Shed, Horse Float, Milk Carton, Winnebago, Box
> Car, Short Van
> Shorts 360: Box, Shoe Box, Barn, Shed, Long Short, The box that the Skyvan
> came in.
> Sikorsky S61N: "Miss Piggy", (fat and ugly)
> Strikemaster: Constant speed - variable noise machine.
> Supermarine Stranraer: Whistling Shithouse
> T-33: T Bird
> T-37: Tweet
> TB-10 Tobago: Toboggan - because they only perform downhill!
> VC-9 Vanguard: Vickers Vibrator
> VC-9 Vanguard Merchantman: The Guards Van
> VC-10: Iron Duck, Vickers Knickers
>
> --
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