'Pet' names for aircraft types?

[phil65]

"Beechcraft Bonanza - So why the 'Forked-Tailed Doctor-Killer'?"

Doctors could afford them, but usually lacked the skills to fly them well.
IOW - JFK Jr.

Phil

[Stoney]

All BOAC/BA flights - Call sign was 'Speed-bird' but everyone else called them 'Flintstones' (no doubt due to being a bit behind the times).

and all this time I've been call them bird seed

Emirates air + golden burugie

[Clifford Bossie]

I always heard the Bonanza was "V tailed doctor killer".

F-86H amd F-84F both reffered to as "Hog"

Any F-84 was a "Sled"

F-104 "Zipper"

F-100 "Hun"

C-119 "Dollar nineteen"

A-7D "Sluf"

A-5 "Viggie"

F4D "Ford"

F3D "Willie the Whale"

F-102A "Deuce"

TF-102A "Tub"

F7U "Gutless Cutlas"

I doubt the Germans ever called the P-38 "The fork tailed devil". They thought very little of it and it never enjoyed the sucess in the ETO that it had in the PTO. That name has Martin Caidin all over it.

C-124 "Shakey"

C-133 "Weinie wagon"

[quemerford]

Not an aircraft exactly, but The Queen's Flight (which flew/flies HS.748, Wessex, A109, BAe 146 etc) is known irreverently as "Betty Windsor's Flying Circus".

Does the Presidential Flight have a similar nick-name?

[quemerford]

And last of all

'BOBFOC' (pronounced Bob-Fock) - The name given to a WAAF who when viewed from the rear appeared to be highly desirable, but when looking at the front view it was quite disappointing.

BOBFOC - stands for 'Body Off Baywatch - Face Off Crimewatch'.

Cheers

Barry

BOBFOC isn't really an RAF term: it's a product of the magazine 'Viz' - or more specifically the character Roger Mellie. It's defined in his Profanisaurus.

There are however a number of genuine RAF terms for WRAF (not WAAF), which I imagine are a bit too risque for inclusion here....

[Pathfinder]

For the benefit of the Colonists on the Forum:

The Royal Air Force (RAF) has always recognised the important contribution which women can make. Its female counterpart, the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) was created on the same date of 1 April 1918 and disbanded in 1920.
Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service, was established as a permanent branch of the RAF in 1923.
The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), formed for war in 1939 was continued after the Second World War ended. It was re-formed as the WRAF, a permanent female peacetime force in 1949 and was fully integrated into the RAF in 1994.
Today, complete integration has broken down the barriers further. For example, female aircrew including pilots now fly operationally in the RAF.

[BAJ]

Mosquito--"Wooden Wonder"

F111-"Ardvark" USAF

F111-"Pig" Unofficial RAAF

[Matt Gunsch]

"Beechcraft Bonanza - So why the 'Forked-Tailed Doctor-Killer'?"

Doctors could afford them, but usually lacked the skills to fly them well.
IOW - JFK Jr.

Phil

except jfk jr was flying a Piper Saratoga

[b29driver]

T-37- 6000# dog whistle
T-38- the white rocket
TriPacer- milk stool
Metro Liner- Garrets on a stick
lawn dart
two bladed skillsaw
Ercoupe- earp scoop
C-130- windmill sh*t house
4 fans of freedom

[BigGrey]

Swearingen MetroLiner-----San Antonio sewer pipe
Fouga Magister-----dog whistle

[SaxMan]

F4U - "Hog" - per Tom Blackburn's account. I think it may have also been referred to as an "Ensign Eliminator", but that applied to a lot of Navy types. "Hose Nose" was another one.

Vickers Viscount - "Reynolds Wrap Rocket" - per several former Capital Airlines pilots - the origin was either from the flights to Huntsville called "Redstone Rockets" or as a spoof on the "Reynolds Rocket" pen that was sold at the time. It was both a tribute to the planes much faster speed than traditional piston engine airliners, as well as a knock on its delicate nature "A fine plane when things were going well" as one pilot told me.

HUP - "Mixmaster"

[airnutz]

Chinook- Sh*thook
Ercoupe- Burp Cup
F8U Crusader- Ensign Killer, The Last Gunfighter, MiG Master
UC-78- Rhapsody in Glue
Cessna O-2 or 337 Skymaster- Pushmepullya after the Dr. Doolittle beastie, Mixmaster
AC-47- Puff(the Magic Dragon) or Spooky
Douglas SBD- Speedy-D and conversely, Slow But Deadly
A-4 Skyhawk- yup, Heineman's Hot Rod, Tinker Toy, and my favorite...Scooter- everywhere it goes it's quick about it, the only time it comes close to looking slow is on final when everything is down and dirty

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[airnutz]

Oooops, double post

[airnutz]

There are however a number of genuine RAF terms for WRAF (not WAAF), which I imagine are a bit too risque for inclusion here....

How titillating! True, possibly very un-PC and certainly off-topic! Soooo...when you post them, asterisks are your friend and attribute them as, "things you heard Donald Trump say". Nudge, nudge,

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[Lynn Allen]

"Beechcraft Bonanza - So why the 'Forked-Tailed Doctor-Killer'?"

Doctors could afford them, but usually lacked the skills to fly them well.
IOW - JFK Jr.

Phil

They would fly the v-tails in level 5 storms and rip the tails off...