Aircraft Nicknames

Post by **DaveB** » 13 May 2006, 15:50

For what it's worth, the old boys at Brooklands who worked on Concorde refer to her as 'The bent nail'!!

ATB

DaveB :tab:

tash · Post by **tash** » 13 May 2006, 15:51

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:

VEGAS · Post by **VEGAS** » 13 May 2006, 15:59

tash wrote:RAF engineers call :-

VC10s - Skodas :shock:

Whats the script with this one then?

Post by **Garry Russell** » 13 May 2006, 16:04

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

Vulcan_to_the_Sky! · Post by **Vulcan_to_the_Sky!** » 13 May 2006, 16:08

Only one I know of that has not been posted yet is this:

Lawn Dart - F-16

tash · Post by **tash** » 13 May 2006, 16:09

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:

VEGAS · Post by **VEGAS** » 13 May 2006, 16:15

Why are VC10's nicknamed Skoda's Tash? :think:

Are they that unreliable or something?

migeater0 · Post by **migeater0** » 13 May 2006, 16:46

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

tash · Post by **tash** » 13 May 2006, 17:00

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.........

Avant-Garde-Aclue · Post by **Avant-Garde-Aclue** » 13 May 2006, 17:05

When I was living in Aden the RAF version of the Argosy with the radar thimble on the nose was known as the Screaming Tit