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RE: Airplane nicknames - 3/10/2007 3:35:31 AM   
scratchpc7



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Piaggio = The Flying Catfish

TACA = Take A Chance Airlines
TWA = Try Walking Across
TWA = Thousands Wandering Aimlessly

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RE: Airplane nicknames - 3/10/2007 5:12:47 AM   
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RE: Airplane nicknames - 3/10/2007 3:02:30 PM   
MTT



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TWA - The worst airline
PANAM - Passengers are not allowed mating
Alitalia - Always late in takeoff, always late in arrival
Lufthansa - Let us f... the hostess, as no steward available

planes :

Slowtation is what pilots of "real" bizjets would call the citation
Fear-jet is what citation pilots would call the Learjet's

And pilots, as well as mechanics, would call the Mitsubishi MU-2 turboprops "Mitsu-bit.. "

And any plane with a GE CJ610 turbojet engine was a "fuel-to-noise converter"

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RE: Airplane nicknames - 3/11/2007 1:53:55 AM   
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I've got a few thousand in an ASW bird, the P-3 Orion. It replaced the P-2 Neptune.

Neptune was the god of the Sea. Orion, the Hunter, was the son of Neptune. That's how the Orion got its name... It was a (submarine) hunter, and it was the son of Neptune.

Bob

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RE: Airplane nicknames - 3/11/2007 4:28:41 AM   
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RE: Airplane nicknames - 4/11/2007 2:04:43 PM   
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RE: Airplane nicknames - 4/11/2007 2:07:20 PM   
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RE: Airplane nicknames - 4/11/2007 2:10:17 PM   
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RE: Airplane nicknames - 4/11/2007 4:49:49 PM   
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Bonanza: Banana, V-Tail Doctor killer

Atr-42: Plastic Pig, Coleco Cruiser, Disposaplane

Shorts 360: The Box That The Twin Otter Came In, Flying Winnebago

Jetstream: Diesel Navajo, Junkstream

Brasilia: Mexican King Air

Dash 7: Weedwhacker

Metroliner: San Antonio Sewer Pipe, Death Tube

Jetstar: Death Star

Cessna 421: Golden Shower

Canadair RJ: Barbie Jet

Brazilian RJ: Jungle Jet

DC-8: Sweeper

MD-80: Mad Dog

717: DC-9

727: Jetasaurus Rex

737: Guppy, Punkinjet, light twin

747: Whale

C-130: Four Fans of Freedom

F-16: Lawn Dart (to those that don't fly it), Viper (to those that do).

Any Airbus: Scarebus, Disposajet

Any GA airplane: Bugsmasher

Curtiss Wright engines: Curtiss Wrong

These are all I can think of off the top of my head!

The Traumahawk was a fun little airplane, as long as you didn't look at the tail shaking around in flight!

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RE: Airplane nicknames - 5/8/2007 7:08:30 AM   
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Air Wisconson: Air wiskey

Chautauqua airlines: chiquita, s*** taco

ACA: always crappy airlines

What did United get rid of to create Ted? U 'n I

C337: sky disaster

Travel air: travel scare

Westwind: jew canoe, rabbi rocket, Yom Kipper clipper

Embraer 135,145: jungle jet

Embraer 170: jungle bus

Twin commanche: twinkie

Cessna 150,152: sky baby

O1, O2, O5 or any other light obversation plane: bullet sponge

Twin Otter: twotter

As350 A star: squirrel (its real name)

Citation: slight-ation (as though they havn't gotten enough)

GE CF610 engines: loud fuel dump

A380: bad financial decision

that is all I can think of for now
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RE: Airplane nicknames - 5/9/2007 2:35:53 AM   
N1EDM



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RE: Airplane nicknames - 5/9/2007 6:22:48 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Tripower455


Brasilia: Mexican King Air




HAHAHA!

Thats funny for a variety of reasons.

They also call the a-star the "gay star", "death star" and a workhorse.

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RE: Airplane nicknames - 5/9/2007 9:56:09 PM   
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And then came the pregnant C-46 called Dumbo.

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RE: Airplane nicknames - 6/6/2007 4:14:24 AM   
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Status: offline 		Everything I've seen looks like the T-37 is officially called the Tweet, not a nickname. Their engines sure are loud though!
I've heard C-172s called skychickens instead of chickenhawks
C-150s are one-****ys

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RE: Airplane nicknames - 6/8/2007 8:50:18 PM   
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