Aircraft nicknames

Spruce Moose · Post by **Spruce Moose** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:12 pm

Does anybody know how the 767 got the nickname 'the dumpster/garbage truck'?

Another one I don't get is why the CRJ is refered to as the barbie jet/fag jet.

Dust Devil · Post by **Dust Devil** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:35 pm

Spruce Moose wrote:
Another one I don't get is why the CRJ is refered to as the barbie jet/fag jet.

Probably because AC operates them.

co-joe · Post by **co-joe** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:41 pm

No idea, but I have heard the 337 called the Cessna Lewinski (something about sucking and blowing at the same time?).

Let's see, the 208 is of course a "Van", the metro is the "Texas Death Tube", or "Turbo Dildo", and the F-104 was the "Widowmaker". I heard the DC-3 called the Dak, but none of the "Greasy Three" drivers at KBA had heard that one. 215's are "Ducks" and the 415 I think is a "super Duck".

You guys know of more?

Brantford Beech Boy · Post by **Brantford Beech Boy** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:39 pm

C337 - Mixmaster
Beech V35 - Fork tailed doctor killer
B727 - Threeholer
Beech 1900 - Flying abortion
DC9 - Diesel 9
DC10 - Death Cruiser 10
MD11 - More Death 11
L1011 - Tri-Taninc
B737-200 - SLUFR (Short Little Ugly Fucker)
BAe 146 - Smurf Jet
DHC-3 - Single Swine
B-52 - BUFF (Big Ugly Fat Fucker)
B-36 - The Stick
B-1B - The Bone
EA-6B - Queer
EMB-110 - Bandit
any Dornier - Doorknob

BBB

Lurch · Post by **Lurch** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:52 pm

F-5 thud, the noise it makes when it gets shot down.

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:06 pm

Bae 146 - Fisher Price Starlifter

Jetstream - Shitstream

Citation - Nearjet, pretenda-jet

Metroliner - San Antonio Sewer Pipe

Rowdy · Post by **Rowdy** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:21 am

I always thought the metro's were "screaming pencils of death"

MU-2 MooToo or Rice Rocket

My lameo instructor used to call the 152 a buck and a half

Little bus 319/20

Big Bus 340

Skywagon = dollar or buck eighty

337 - suck and blow

207 - crowd killer

How did the -3 become a swine?

wha happen · Post by **wha happen** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:58 am

metro - texas lawn dart

cessna lewinsky, awesome

niss · Post by **niss** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:06 am

Im pimpin it up in my ONE - FOUR - OH YEA!

Tubthumper · Post by **Tubthumper** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:56 am

C-5 Galaxy - RED (Rediculous Expensive Disaster)
F-104 Lawn Dart
F-105 LandShark, Polish Glider.

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:03 am

Forgot to add:

Westwind = Bagel Bomber

wha happen · Post by **wha happen** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:04 am

DC-9 - whistling shit can

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:18 pm

After AC ran the Canadiar RJ into the snow out in the Maritimes, I often heard that plane referred to as the Ski doo.

Stan_Cooper · Post by **Stan_Cooper** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:33 pm

I think the Ski Doo nickname predates that prang... Isn't it more to do with the fact that they're made by the same company?

Spruce Moose · Post by **Spruce Moose** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:48 pm

some of these are halarious.

Other ones I've heard;

Jetstream - Wetdream

737 - Guppie

B1900D - Shamoo, King Air on Steroids

337 - PushPull, '69

Check Pilot · Post by **Check Pilot** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:08 pm

Here's a bunch more:

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.
Beaufighter: The Whispering Giant
Beech 18: Flying snag
Beech Baron: Ball tearer
Beech 200: Super K
Beech 1900: Flipper, Dolphin, Stonefish
Beech T-34: Radial Interceptor
Bell 206: Deathranger, Hydraulic palmtree
Bristol 188: The Mayfly
Bristol Britannia: The Whispering Giant (Was this the original WG?)
Bristol Freighter: Freightener
B727: 3 holer, Trisaurus, Triple crome-plated stovepipe
B737: Tin mouse, Maggot, Pocket Rocket Socket, FLUF (Fat Little Ugly F**cker), Light Twin, Baby Boeing, Fat Freddy, Pig, Bobby (BOeing BaBY).
B747: 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.
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: Dakasaurus Rex.
DC 6: Douglasaurus Rex.
DC-8: Old Smokey, Greasy8, Death Cruiser, Whiney Bird
DC 9: Greasy 9, Diesel 9, Pocket Rocket (series 10/15 only)
DC 10: Diesel 10, Death Cruiser 10, Crowd Killer
MD 11: More Death 2, I also like '..' 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, The Converter - (ie, it converted fuel into noise). F50: F**kin' Fifty
F28: WhisperJet
Fokker 100: The .. Because they point them at Europe and they don't come back!
FA 18: Bug
F-105 The Thud
F-111: 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
C130 Hercules: Fat Albert, Trash hauler, Herkybird
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.
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
Shorts 360: Box, Shoe Box, Shed, The box that the Skyvan came in.
Sikorsky S61N: "Miss Piggy", (fat and ugly)
Strikemaster: Constant speed - variable noise machine.
Supermarine Stranraer: Whistling Shithouse
TB-10 Tobago: Toboggan - because they only perform downhill!
VC-9 Vanguard Merchantman: The Guards Van
VC-10: Iron Duck, Vickers Knickers

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:25 pm

Stan_Cooper wrote:I think the Ski Doo nickname predates that prang... Isn't it more to do with the fact that they're made by the same company?

If I'm not mistaken, the registration of the AC plane was either C-FSKI or C-GSKI

lilfssister · Post by **lilfssister** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:31 pm

co-joe wrote: I heard the DC-3 called the Dak

Short for Dakota

co-joe · Post by **co-joe** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:07 pm

Ahhh, I always wondered that. So..uh...what's a Dakota? Wasn't it made by Douglas, pre-McDonnel Douglas?

I remember the F-100 being refered to as a "Clunk".

Someone here recently called the Twotter the " Two Headed Float Roadent"

Siddley Hawker · Post by **Siddley Hawker** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:51 pm

The Dakota - Dak - was what the Brits called the military version of the DC-3. I've heard it called that in Canada also.

A few more

Fairey Godmother
Fairey Nuff
Spartan Interior
Fleet Street
Handley-Page Turner
Handley-Page Sauce

Rowdy · Post by **Rowdy** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:56 pm

Heard some more

206 - Two oh Sucks, Too Slow Six

At-802 - rhubarb express (on floats) sea biscuit

DHC-6 - The twat

ACs old Dc9's were GREASY Nines

Katana - Can a Tuna

I love the traumahawk! Classic

keep em coming!

Tubthumper · Post by **Tubthumper** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:45 pm

Beech 18 - Bug Smasher

ScudRunner · Post by **ScudRunner** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:56 am

BN2 =Jiggle bus

Lurch Wrote

F-5 thud, the noise it makes when it gets shot down

I believe it was the Thunder F-105 Thunderchief named the Thud

Flying Low · Post by **Flying Low** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:45 am

I believe it was the Thunder F-105 Thunderchief named the Thud

It's actually the Republic F-105 Thunderchief.

Nicknames include:
-Thud
-Lead Sled
-Ultra Hog
-Squash Bomber
-Drop Forged by Republic Aviation

Tubthumper · Post by **Tubthumper** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:21 am

B727 - JurassicJet

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