Aircraft Nicknames
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RAF engineers call :-
VC10s - Skodas :shock:
Tristars - Timmies :dance:
Tornadoes - Tonkas (No! not VC10 captains, how is MPA by the way? )
Harriers - the 4 towers of power
Chinook - Chinnie
C130 - Albert
Red Arrows - sparrows
Jet Provost - J.P.
Chipmunk - Chippy
Any helicopter - Cab
While we are on nick names, the British Army call the RAF 'Crab Air' :tuttut:
VC10s - Skodas :shock:
Tristars - Timmies :dance:
Tornadoes - Tonkas (No! not VC10 captains, how is MPA by the way? )
Harriers - the 4 towers of power
Chinook - Chinnie
C130 - Albert
Red Arrows - sparrows
Jet Provost - J.P.
Chipmunk - Chippy
Any helicopter - Cab
While we are on nick names, the British Army call the RAF 'Crab Air' :tuttut:
If the Army was ment to fly god would have painted the sky green!
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We used to apply Skoda to ATP
Also at one time the ATP was called Wigwam
Shed = Short 330 (also Vomit Comet)
Super Shed = Short 360
Harold = Herald
Meatbox = Meteor
Tri = Trislander
The beak = Concorde (Not often)
Statuscruiser = Stratocruiser
Gooney Bird = Douglas C-47.
Dak = Douglas DC 3
Noisy Star = Candair DC4M2 North Star
Norman = Nimrod
Converter = Convair CV-880/990
Connie = Constellation
Super Connie = Super Constellation
Whispering Death = Beaufighter
Whispering Giant = Bristol Britannia
Also at one time the ATP was called Wigwam
Shed = Short 330 (also Vomit Comet)
Super Shed = Short 360
Harold = Herald
Meatbox = Meteor
Tri = Trislander
The beak = Concorde (Not often)
Statuscruiser = Stratocruiser
Gooney Bird = Douglas C-47.
Dak = Douglas DC 3
Noisy Star = Candair DC4M2 North Star
Norman = Nimrod
Converter = Convair CV-880/990
Connie = Constellation
Super Connie = Super Constellation
Whispering Death = Beaufighter
Whispering Giant = Bristol Britannia
Garry
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I know I know I know! As Ex VC10s and now on tristars I am very quick to correct them all at work that that is 'the queen of the skys' they are refering to . I don't think I am able to write the reply I usualy get :shock: . Ahhhhh, inter squadron rivalry, you can't beat it :dance:
If the Army was ment to fly god would have painted the sky green!
Chinook - Wokka
All the others have been mentioned.
Others here...
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/g ... kname.html
http://www.chris.brady.ukgateway.net/ai ... knames.htm
http://www.b737.org.uk/aircraftnicknames.htm
All the others have been mentioned.
Others here...
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/g ... kname.html
http://www.chris.brady.ukgateway.net/ai ... knames.htm
http://www.b737.org.uk/aircraftnicknames.htm
The Sock Lives! Long Live The Sock!
Everyone calls them Skodas because they are a bit old and do play up a lot of the time, are also noisy and smoke a bit and belive it or not held together with a fair amount of tape! Also, when the 'supers' were at Abingdon someone stuck a Skoda badge on the yokes of the aircraft to be flown to Filton to be converted into K4's and from then on.........
If the Army was ment to fly god would have painted the sky green!