Warbird Information Exchange

I love some of the nicknames they have these days

B-52 Superfortress is called a B.U.F.F. Big Ugly Fat F***ker
CH-53 Sea Stallion is called S**tter
CH-47 Chinook is called a S**t hook
H-21C Shawnee is called Flying Banana
HH-3E is called Jolly Green Giant
H-34 Sea Horse called Sea Whores by the Navy
F-105 Thunderchief called Thud
AC-47 called Spooky or Puff the Magic Dragon

Let's hear 'em

My favorite was the A-7 SLUF -- Short, Little, Ugly F*cker.

For modern jets:

F-15C - Rodan, or Light Gray
F-15E - Mud Hen or Dark Gray
A-10 - Hog
F-16 - Viper or LGPOS (Little Gray Piece of Sh*t) -- personally, I like to call 'em "Fighting Falcon" because that p*sses off F-16 pilots the most, as in "Kill Fighting Falcon".
F-18E/F - Super Bug
C-17 - FRED (F*cking Ridiculous Expenditure of Dollar$)
B-1 - BONE

A-1 Skyraider = Spad, Able Dog, Fat Face (A-1E)
A-3D, EA-3B Skywarrior = Whale, All 3 Dead, Whistling sugar
A-4 Skyhawk = Scooter, Mongoose, Heinemann's Hot Rod
A-6 Intruder = Drumstick, Pregnant Guppy, Whale (KA-6)
A-7 Corsair II = SLUF (Short Little Ugly F...er)
A-10 Thunderbolt II = Warthog, Hog
A-37 Dragonfly = Dog Whistle, Converter (jet fuel into noise)
B-1 Lancer = Bone (B-one), Lawn Dart
B-2 Spirit = Black Knight, Boomerang
B-52 Stratofortress = BUFF, Aluminum Overcast
C-5 Galaxy = Aluminum Overcast, Cumulus Aluminus,
Big Mac, Fat Albert,
FRED (Foolishly Ridiculous Economic Disaster)
Linda Lovelace,Queer
(every time it kneels, it blows something)
C-17 Globemaster III = Mighty Mouse, Buddha, Moose, Barney
C-124 Globemaster II = Aluminum Overcast*,Boneshaker, Old Shaky
C-130 Hercules = Herky Bird, Hercu-Slease
Vibrator, Bugsmasher
C-141 Starlifter = Lockheed Lizard (-B mod in Camo),
Tube of Pain, Quarter Pounder (see C-5),
Star Lizard
E-1 Tracer = Willie Fudd, Stoof with a Roof
E-2 Hawkeye = Hummer
E-3 Sentry, AWACS = Frisbee
EA-6B Prowler = Queer, Double Ugly, Family Truckster
EC-130H Hercules* Electric Herc
EC-130E Commando Solo = Clipper (pods give it a seaplane look)
EF-111 Raven = Sparkvark
ES-3 Shadow = Electro-Lux
F-100 Super Sabre = Hun, Super Sled
F-101 Voodoo = One-Oh-Wonder
F-102 Delta Dagger = Deuce
F-104 Starfighter = Zipper, Missile With A Man In It, Sled
Widowmaker (in the Luftwaffe)
F-105 Thunderchief = Nickel, Thud, Lead Sled
F-106 Delta Dart = Six
FB-111 (None) = Aardvark, Switchblade Edsel, Ramp Vac,
McNamara's Folly
F-117 Nighthawk = Black Jet, Goblin, Ghost, BatPlane,
Cockroach, Roach
(they only come out at night)
F-4 Phantom II = Rhino, Double Ugly, Warped Wing,
Bug Basher
F-5A, B Freedom Fighter, = Skoshi Tiger
F-8 Crusader = Mig Master, Crud
F-14 Tomcat = Turkey, Bombcat (bomb capable version)
Peeping Tom (equipped w/TARPS)
F-15A/C Eagle = Rhodan, Flying Tennis Court,
Starship, Ego Jet
F-15E Strike Eagle = Mudhen, Beagle (Bomb Eagle)
F-16 Fighting Falcon = Lawn Dart, Viper, Electric Jet
F/A-18 Hornet = Plastic Bug, Bug
KC-135 Stratotanker = Strato-Bladder, Steam Jet,
Fanbird (R version)
KC-10 Extender = Snoopy
O-2 Skymaster = Mixmaster, Pushmepullyou
OA-37 ? = Killer Tweet
S-2 Tracker = Stoof
S-3, S-3B Viking = Hoover, War Hoover
SR-71 (None) = Blackbird, Habu, Sled
T-37 ? = Tweety Bird, Tweet, Dog Whistle
T-38 Talon = White Rocket, Smurf (AT-38 )



Blackburn Buccaneer = "Brick"
Gloster Meteor = "Meatbox"
Aerospatiale C-160 Transall = "Trall"


in Switzerland

Dassault Mirage IIIS = "Miro"
Dassault Mirage IIIRS = "Amir"

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A few from Dubya-Dubya-Two:


F4U Corsair - Whistling Death, Hose Nose, Hog Nose.

SBD Dauntless - Slow But Deadly

SB2C Helldiver - Beast, Big Ass Bird, Son-of-a-Bitch Second Class.

B-26 Marauder - The Flying Prostitute / Baltimore Whore (no visible means of support) One-a-day in Tampa Bay (referring to high accident rates in training)

Vultee BT-13 - Vibrator

Many sources refer to the P-47 Thunderbolt as "Jug" and the P-38 Lighting as "Fork Tailed Devil," but there's some debate as to whether these were wartime nicknames, or postwar creations by author Martin Caidin.


SN

I have it on good authority that the Republic F-84 Thunderjet was called the Repulsive Blunderjet by its unhappy crews.

August

Don't mean to hijack the thread but I was wondering if anybody could shed some light on Martin Caidin and his history with warbirds and writing books. I remember reading a bunch of his books when I was a kid and if I remember correctly he also owned/operated the JU-52 for a short while.

John

I think Warhawk went good with the P-40. And Buffalo was spot on for the Brewster F2A(it looked liked a buffalo to me).

The P-38 Lightning was called "Fork-tailed Devil" by the Germans.

Delaware ANG crews used to refer to their C-130's as Huskies.

Any helicopter is an "eggbeater".

Cheers!

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Dean Hemphill, K5DH
Port Charlotte, Florida

Yep. The book you may be thinking of is "The saga of Iron Annie". The Ju he owned is now being flown by Lufthansa as D-AQUI. He also, around the same time, owned an Me-208.

As a friend of mine says, "Ol Marty would tell it like it was...even if it wasn't!".

Great guy, take a grain or three of salt when reading his books though. Another good book is "Everything but the Flak".

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Regards,

Jase
www.b26marauder.com
"I'm having a BLAST!!" 2007 CAF Wing Staff Conference

RIP Gary Austin..always in our hearts

Thanks for the info Jase. Yeah...he seemed to have a larger than life image and was a bit on the eccentric side (not that there's anything wrong with that ).

John

Hmmm... Guess I'm overpaid!

The Israelis call their C-130s "Hippos"

I believe the Japanese called the P-38 "Two Planes, One Pilot"

Someone involved in warbirds that's *eccentric*?????? Nah. Vicious lies and rumours.

Yea, Marty was for sure one of a kind.

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Regards,

Jase
www.b26marauder.com
"I'm having a BLAST!!" 2007 CAF Wing Staff Conference

RIP Gary Austin..always in our hearts

The Luftwaffe liked to give nicknames based on the letter-variant.

Bf-109E = "Emil"
Bf-109F = "Friedrich"
Bf-109G = "Gustav"

Fw-190D = "Dora"

The radial engined FW-190's also were known as "Würger" (shrike) and "Schlächter" (butcher)

the Me-262 was called "Schwalbe" (swallow), the Bf-110 "Zerstörer" (destroyer)

the Me-163 went by the name "Kraftei" (power-egg)

Martin

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