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Post by tempestwulf on Feb 21, 2009 15:09:50 GMT 12
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Post by FlyNavy on Feb 21, 2009 15:27:43 GMT 12
How about the URL for that ARC thread please? TAH tempestwulf. One name is likely not there so I'll add it here. Winjeel 'body by Grummett' (Grummett - if spelt correctly - was the badge "body by Grummett" on the rear of the RAAF Point Cook garbage trucks). Is that obscure or what? ;D
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Post by corsair67 on Feb 21, 2009 17:23:31 GMT 12
Chance Vought F4U Corsair - Bent-Wing Bastard, Ensign Killer, Hose Nose, Sweetheart of Okinawa.
Ling Temco Vought A-7 - SLUF (Short Little Ugly Fu*ker!)
Martin B-26 Marauder - Flying Prostitute (short wings - "no visible means of support"!).
General Dynamics/Lockheed Martin F-16 - Viper.
Wasn't the CT-4 also called the Plastic Rat in RNZAF service?
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Post by alanw on Feb 21, 2009 20:47:01 GMT 12
Chance Vought F4U Corsair - Bent-Wing Bastard, Ensign Killer, Hose Nose, Sweetheart of Okinawa. Ling Temco Vought A-7 - SLUF (Short Little Ugly Fu*ker!) Martin B-26 Marauder - Flying Prostitute (short wings - "no visible means of support"!). General Dynamics/Lockheed Martin F-16 - Viper. Wasn't the CT-4 also called the Plastic Rat in RNZAF service? Also F4U commonly referred as "Whispering Death" Though that name has also been associated with The Bristol Beaufighter F 16: Electric Jet few others I know SR 71: Habu Douglas SBD 1-5: SBD=Slow But Deadly Grumman Avenger: Turkey Handley page Hampden: Flying Coffin Boeing B52: BUFF= Big Ugly Fat F***er Short Sunderland = Flying Porcupine RNZAF fav Bristol Freighter: 44000 rivets flying in close formation I'm sure there are others, Brain fade at present  |
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Post by yak2 on Feb 22, 2009 21:21:49 GMT 12
Supermarine Walrus was curiously referred to as a Shagbat. RAAF name for the CT4 was Plastic Parrot.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 23, 2009 19:06:48 GMT 12
Wasn't the CT-4 also called the Plastic Rat in RNZAF service? Yes, a name that followed the RAAF Plastic Parrot nicjname (which was dubbed that because if the green and yellow schemes of the 1970's) and so the grey RNZAF ones became rats. The Airtourers were often referred to as 'Bugsplatterers' in RNZAF service. The Boeing 727 in RNZAF was usually known as the Vomit Comet or the Boing. The Orions in RNZAF service were often heard called Onions. RNZAF Hercules were usually Hercs (or spelled Herks by some). Skyhawks were Squwarks. Iroquois were often 'Wocka-Wockas', I never heard them called Hueys but people these days seem to. The Friendships were Freindlies. And Andovers were Leftovers. |
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Post by alanw on Feb 23, 2009 19:57:43 GMT 12
Wasn't the CT-4 also called the Plastic Rat in RNZAF service? And Andovers were Leftovers. Re Andovers I have heard them referred to as "hand overs" also |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Feb 23, 2009 21:13:04 GMT 12
Knew a guy who worked on the Andovers when they first arrived here.
They were at that stage painted in the RAF brown/yellow camo scheme and were therefore known as chocolate bananas.
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Post by oldnavy on Feb 24, 2009 14:02:13 GMT 12
Guys! Thanks for all this new (to me) information! I obviously mistakenly thought there were only two aircraft nicknames!
One was a type called "a Fighter"
All the other aeroplanes were simply referred to as "Targets!" ;D
Didn't realise they had actual names!
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Post by chewy on Sept 5, 2009 21:17:47 GMT 12
CT4 airtrainers were also known as tin sparrows. Strikemasters, known as blunties.
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Post by ZacYates on Sept 6, 2009 20:04:19 GMT 12
I've also heard the F-16 (yuck!) referred to as the Lawn Dart. Did the RNZN Wasps ever have a nickname? What about the Seasprite? 757? I have heard "Mash chopper/helicopter" far too many times to remember for the Sioux  Both the Stearman and Harvard were Yellow Peril, Harvard the Window Breaker, I think I've seen reference to the B-26 as Widow Maker. Whistling Death for the Corsair? Flying venetian blind...betcha can't guess that one  Spammie - South African Harvards Spamcan - pretty much any modern aluminium lightie Wobbly goblin - F-117 Love the radomed-Argosy name: whistling tit! |
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Post by shamus on Sept 6, 2009 21:53:39 GMT 12
The 737-200 was a 'sooty'
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Post by glycol on Sept 6, 2009 22:09:22 GMT 12
The first three 737s were known as Sooty, Smokey and Smudge.
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Post by mumbles on Sept 6, 2009 22:31:34 GMT 12
Love the radomed-Argosy name: whistling tit! Also known as the 'Whistling Wheelbarrow". It's probably in the listed ARC thread, but one of my favourite nicks is one for the F-105 Thunderchief, "The triple threat". The idea being first it bombs you, then it strafes you, then it falls on you......  Something like half the total production run (IIRC)was lost in combat over Vietnam which may explain the falling reference. |
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Post by flyjoe180 on Sept 7, 2009 10:02:01 GMT 12
I'll do the Metro in before others take that liberty:
Texas Death Tube
Lawn Dart
Mud Dart
Screeming Wheenie
Garrets on a Stick
San Antonio Sewer Pipe
Flying Pencil
Swetro (in the summer)
Baltimore sleeper (no visible means of support, skinny lil 'ol wings)
Terror Tube
Widow maker
Kerosene Crowbar
Fear tube
And some others which I cannot say here due to it being a family show.
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Post by Andy Wright on Sept 7, 2009 14:04:14 GMT 12
Whistling Death for the Corsair? Yep. Could apply that to the Boomerang as well but don't think it ever was. |
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Post by beagle on Sept 7, 2009 21:14:43 GMT 12
CT4 airtrainers were also known as tin sparrows. Strikemasters, known as blunties. when and where were they called tin sparrows. never heard that one before |
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Post by vs on Sept 7, 2009 21:29:33 GMT 12
Boeing 747: The Hog, Jumbo Jet, Daddys yacht
146: quadra-puff
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 7, 2009 21:41:35 GMT 12
I've never heard the term Tin Sparrows either, Beagle. Must be an RAAF name?
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Post by chewy on Sept 8, 2009 21:58:44 GMT 12
The name Tin Sparrow was used when the aiforce first got the Air tourers. I worked on Air Tourers , CT4B's and other aircraft when i was at Wigram. They were Pop rivet wonders.
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Something like half the total production run (IIRC)was lost in combat over Vietnam which may explain the falling reference.
