aicraft nicknames!!!!

[Smoove Ride]

RJ = Replacement Jet
(i hear it all the time in DFW from DAL pilots. if i was them, i'd be bitter too!)

 

[GumbyflysVipers]

Please Gentlemen,

The F-117 is not the woblin goblin. It flys very smoothly with flybywire. Call it rather the Cockroach or stinkbug because it is really ugly and only comes out at night. woblin goblin came from some fool who wrote a crazy article for popular mechanics back in 87.

Furthermore, while the F-16 is sometimes referred to as the electric jet, those who fly it prefer to call it the Viper because it bites fast and hard.

 

[TedCFII]

SAAB 340

Somethings Almost Always Broken 340

Slob-amatic

CRJ

Current Retirement Jet

 

[Dignan]

Twin Comanche--Twinkie (good for enraging Twinkie owners)
Apache--Apathy (at least the one I used to fly)

 

[CXAV8]

Names

Citation X-Mickey Mouse(Front view).
Lear Jet's-Lawn Darts
Westwinds-Yum-Kipper-Clipper(Sorry, Flight Safety Taught)
Hawker's-Hackers

 

[hagen]

ERJ-
1.Practice Jet
2.NAFTA Jet


Try these web sites for airline nicknames.

1.nicknames 1

2.nicknames 2

 

[crash-proof]

Re: Names

Citation X-Mickey Mouse(Front view).

HA!!! And check out this pic to back that up!

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/133077/M/

 

[empenage]

An S-76 Captain once told me that, " flying a helicopter is just like masterbating....it feels good while your doing it but afterward you are ashamed ".

Any Gulfstream.....Gulp-stream.

 

[sabreliner]

E120 - Vibraliner

MD-11 - MD-911 or Mighty Dog

ATR - Plastic French School Bus

 

[KingAirer]

Be76 Duchess= Slutchess

 

[PTWOB]

military nicknames

C-141: Tube of Pain
T-38: Talon
T-1A(Beech 400): Squathawk

 

[BlueRidger]

I'm afraid to find out what all you guys call your flight attendants.

 

[firstthird]

Fokker F-100 = the double date

Apparently AA flies it with 2 pilots and 2 flight attendants.

 

[empenage]

We call our flight attendants " Host-a-toots".

 

[sabreliner]

Trolley Donkey

 

[asipilot]

Metroliner = vomit comet

 

[slapstick]

737-200 : punt (just look at the durned thing)

MU-2 : Fuh Q, too. (from my lineman days...dang those MU-2's)


SWA livery: mustard jets

Delta livery: dirty flag


C-150 : land-o-matic

Beechjet : Beeyotchjet

C-182 : Skylame

 

[Traumahawk]

great thread!

Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk, in addition to the previous....

"Tommytrauma"
"Tombahawk"
and
"flying death trap"....which I think is just a bit harsh. The spin recovery procedure is in the POH....works every time

T-hawk

P.S. Does anyone know why the MD-88 is the "mad-dog" ??

 

[crash-proof]

C-182 : Skylame

C-182 lame?

I thought the 182 was everything the 172 wished it could be...and more.

i take it you're a piper driver...

 

[travis]

C-337 - My Grandpa always called 'em Mixmasters

Metroliner - I came up with 'Texas Tampon' right after I got typed