Aircraft Nicknames

[Frogs Eater]

And here, some nicknames from Sydney ATC:

All planes under 5700 Kg: Bugsmasher
Balloons, airships : Floaty things

Dash 8 100/200 Short date, date , smash 8, splash 8
Dash 8 300 Long date
Dash 8 400 very long date

B707 Thunderbus
B717 Beechjet
B737 Pig, FLUF, tin mouse
B737-800 Super maggot, board 'n' no tail, goggomobile
B747-100/200 Valiants, money chewers, lawnmover
B747SP The charger
DC8-60 and B757 Stick insect
B757 Tube
757-300 Long tube

DC10 megadeath

MU-2 Kerosene crowbar, widowmaker, fuel to noise converter, hiroshima screamer

All airbus: Scarebus, froggie flyer, le-plane

A318 Tarago ( I don't know why ???), nimbus
A319 Minbus
A320 Minibus, deathstar
Heard at Seattle some years ago: Deforestator320, megabeaver, Toulouse chainsaw

BAE146 Fume box, bring another engine, 5 APU fitted, fruitbat, Pterodactyl

Metro Texas sewer pipe, noise converter, death pencil, Monica's cigar ( a controller told me: because its long and slender, and goes places you really dont want to go...)

Warrior Xena

Short 330/360 Shed, flying garden shed, vomit comet (also for 747-400 Wunala dreaming), Irish concorde

P3C orion Waterwatcher
F104 Widowmaker, missile with man in it
F111 Pig