Silly aircraft names

[Brewster Buffalo]

Aviation Traders Accountant

Douglas Mixmaster

Republic Rainbow

Armstrong Whitley Ape

Bristol Tramp

Convair Pogo

Republic Thunderceptor

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Any additions welcome...

(OK Brewster Buffallo is a bit silly but remember the Sopwitch Camel :cool:)

[barit1]

But DH Canada also made a Buffalo.

Convair made the Coronado (not so silly) but their predecessors, Consolidated-Vultee, also made a Coronado.

[Gainesy]

Nieuport Pagnell?

Fairey Nuff?

[ZH875]

Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft
Future Large Aircraft
Joint Strike Fighter
European Fighter Aircraft
Airbus A400M


I think to honour of the A400M, it will be known in RAF service as 'JPA'

-Jumbo Petrol Aircraft-

[zarniwoop]

Sopwith 8f.1 Snail

Martinsyde Elephant

Neither of which really inspire a great deal of confidence.

[Kieron Kirk]

How about the lesser spotted Fairey Cake ?

Mother Riley's Cardboard Aeroplane otherwise known as Tornado ! TORNADO 2 it should have been but obviously the braindead Air Marshalls forgot about the earlier HAWKER TORNADO !

Bristol Fashion which leads on to the well known Pair of Bristols.

Commonwealth Secretary General.

Yeoman of the Guard.

Fleet of Foot.

[Kieron Kirk]

Beech Tree.
Bell Bottoms.
Champion the Wonder Horse.
Linn LP12(the well known Scottish hi-fi of course).
Republic of Ireland.
Travel in Style.
Waco Shooting.

[Saab Dastard]

Consolidated Accounts

Short A**e

Hunting Horn

North American Continent

- and its less successful derivative, the Incontinent

And of course, the Silly Fokker!

;)

[handysnaks]

Boeing boing baggies

[spekesoftly]

Supermarine Spitfire

The opinion of its designer, R.J. Mitchell:-

"Bloody silly name for an aeroplane!"

[Saab Dastard]

The Douglas Fairbanks

The Martin Chuzzlewit

The Spartan Interior

The Fleet Street

I'm getting the hang of this!

[treadigraph]

Airspeed Indicator

Canadair Dry

Robin Reliant... Or was it the Reliant Robin?

Sorry, dredging for it...

[Gainesy]

Halberstadt is better than none Treaders.

[BEagle]

Actually, the A400M will be the "Bristol Bureaucrat"....

The Air Marshals actually wanted to call the Hawk the 'Tercel'. A sort of baby ****ehawk.

TypHoon could have been "Cyclone". But that didn't translate terribly well into German, particularly for the two-seater, or B model.....

"Hmm. Eurofighter Zyklon B. Don't think we'll be selling many of those to certain countries..."

As for PFI, the RAAF decided against it for their A330MRTTs. Rumour hath it that they consider 'PFI' to stand for 'Poms are Flaming Idiots'...:rolleyes:

[green granite]

The ML aircraft with the inflatable wing was known as the Durex delta :O

[treadigraph]

The Macchi Thatcher...

[spekesoftly]

BAC T'front

Miles Away

Armstrong Wrestling

[treadigraph]

EE (BAe) Gum

[spekesoftly]

Just an Ilyushin

Antonov'er one

[treadigraph]

Sukhoi Sioux...

MiG Welder

[barit1]

Armstrong Wrestling

Armstrong Starter :ouch:

Handley Page-Turner

Bell Carillon

[gruntie]

Consolidated VAT Return

[irishair2001]

What about the Hawker Tomtit, The Budd Cannestoga (aka The Metal Abortion),B-58 Hustler or how about SIMMERING-GRAZ-PAUKER M-222 Flamingo. What a mouthfull.

[Seloco]

Vickers Teaparty:8
Bristol Fashion
GAF Ferrig
HP Sauce :{
Avro Willtravel
MIG McManus (I wrestled with that one....:\ )
What's this all about anyway?!

[Hen Ddraig]

Ryan Air



Time to spare, go by air.
Hen Ddraig

[wub]

Handley Page HP39 Gugnunc (it's true!)

[treadigraph]

I'm sure you all know this, but I like the fabled entry from a member of staff for the NA-39 project naming competion - Arna. "Arna" said the Management, "Sounds good, wot's it mean?" "A Royal Navy Aeroplane" came the reply. They saw the joke after saying it after Blackburn. So it became the Buccaneer instead...

Couple more really silly ones, thinking of the old Tiger Club hangar at Redhillin 70s/80s:

Currie Favour
Cassutt Recorder

and...

Rollason Other

[grow45]

Slightly off topic but in another life I worked in an aircraft museum and during a quiet period we spent a considerable amount of time giving alliterative aircraft names to the members of staff based on a real manufacturers and the person's surname. Just wondered if anybody recognised :-
the Supermarine Storer
the Bristol Brown
the de Havilland Dodds
the Gloster Griffiths
the Fairey Fitzpatrick
the Westland Wood
or the Miles MacRobbie

g45

[barit1]

What about the Hawker Tomtit, The Budd Cannestoga (aka The Metal Abortion),...

Conestoga. Flying stainless-steel streetcar.

I knew the test pilot. They picked him because he was the luckiest man alive. :ok:

[rotornut]

Hughes 300:

Pissquick

Cabover chainsaw

Piper Aztec:

Flying barn door

Dornier:

Doorknob

[barit1]

During the fuel price squeeze of the 80's GE developed its UDF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propfan) (Un-Ducted Fan) engine. (Funny how the marketeers chose to identify it by describing what it WASN'T...)
But to most residents of the area, UDF (http://www.udfinc.com/) stood for the local convenience stores - United Dairy Farmers.

[TwoDeadDogs]

Hi all
The Broughton-Blayney-Brawney, the Hengist-Hendy-Heck and the English Electric Lightning.Imagine replying to the ATCO when he says "say your aircraft type.....:)
regards
TDD

[Blacksheep]

I'm surprised no-one's mentioned the Fairey Godmother... :hmm:

...or the English Electric Kettle.

[treadigraph]

The English Electric Class 73.

No really, I saw one at Gatwick once. OK, it was pulling the Gatwick Express... I was on another train waiting at the station and the data plate was next to me, built the same year as me and still going strong!

Click here (http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/73.html) (I'm not a trian spotter I'M NOT!)

[LowNSlow]

Getting back on the original tack how about these:

Northrop X-55 Ascender which was a jibe on the fact it had the prop at the back (Ass Ender).

Sopwith Dolphin which was not a seaplane!

Sopwith Cuckoo which I suppose threw all the other aeroplanes out of the hangar?

Hawker Hedgehog - a ground attack aircraft maybe?

Hawker Humpback - had a whale of a time

Fairey Ferret - a partner to the Hawker Hedgehog?

B.A.T. Baboon - words fail me.......

[The SSK]

Am I in a minority in thinking that 'Avro Lancaster' has a good ring to it, whereas 'Avro Manchester' sounds all wrong?

[treadigraph]

Interesting thought SSK - had the Manchester been more successful, I wonder whether it might have sounded better? Avro York and Handley Page Halifax make good aircraft names as well, don't they?

And just think, it could have been Avro Leeds or Avro Liverpool... (Apologies to the good folk from those fair cities!). Or Handley Page Hull...

[The SSK]

Interesting thought SSK - had the Manchester been more successful, I wonder whether it might have sounded better? Avro York and Handley Page Halifax make good aircraft names as well, don't they?
And just think, it could have been Avro Leeds or Avro Liverpool... (Apologies to the good folk from those fair cities!). Or Handley Page Hull...
'From Hell, Hull and Halifax, Good Lord deliver us'

[southender]

What's a Proctor or a Prentice?

Surely Percival Pontefract or Percival Prestatyn has a better ring!!!!

Cheers

Southender

[treadigraph]

Westland Wolverhampton or the Bolton Paul Bolton (sounds like a there and back...). What might have been...

[Churchill Polar Bear]

Trying to google the Hawker Hedgehog, if found the
Sopwith Tabloid , which can be seen here (http://members.madasafish.com/~d_hodgkinson/Hawker-BloodLine.htm). (better place for an airplane than a gutter, methinks.:rolleyes: )
Sopwith 3F.2 Hippo

[ZH875]

Sopwith Gordon Bennett Racer,

I wonder how/why they chose that name.

[Churchill Polar Bear]

I wonder how/why they chose that name.quite obvious (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=Gordon.Bennett.Race&btnG=Search) methinks :rolleyes:

[Mr Proachpoint]

Supermarine Slough?
Bristol Bracknell?


MAPt

[Genghis the Engineer]

Glancing through my logbook, I've flown the Chotia Weedhopper and the Medway Halfpint. Both, to be frank quite appropriate to the aircraft.

But for silliest names of all (and fun 'though it is to fly), who decided to call this a Thruster

G

http://www.twistedirony.com/images/ultralight_flying_44.jpg

[LowNSlow]

Whilst doing some snouting around trying to identify a cockpit picture I came across these wonderful names:

Bognor Bloater (fuselage built by Saunders Roe)
Short Shrimp
Short Sturgeon
Short Satellite
Bristol Badger
Bristol Brownie
Consolidated Trusty

Ye Gods, you couldn't make them up!

[airborne_artist]

Handley Page Turner
Shorts Circuit

[barit1]

Pete, Mike, Ike, and Mister Mulligan - though I wouldn't call their performance silly. :cool:

[EGBKFLYER]

Apparently when what is now known as the Bucaneer was unnamed, they had a naming competition amongst factory employees. The winning entry suggested calling the new aircraft the ARNA - standing for A Royal Navy Aeroplane. Nearly worked, til someone noticed that the manufacturer was called Blackburn...

What about the Cessna Pit or Beech Hut?

[Phileas Fogg]

Shorts 360 Advanced

(Still trying to figure out 20 years on what was advanced about a Shed!)

[Blacksheep]

The Gordon Bennet - I wonder how/why they chose that name.

quite obvious methinks Oh, I thought that upon making contact with the enemy it would perhaps head back home, to fetch reinforcements.

[Dr Illitout]

BAe ATP!!
I was under the impression that it stood for Advanced Turbo Prop untill I worked on it. I then found out it refered to its scrap value, 80p!!!!

Rgds Dr I

[Flap40]

The turboprop was advanced. It was the airframe that wasn't :)

[blue up]

I've just finished the restoration of a Clutton-Tabenor FRED (series 2, don't ya know) G-BMMF. The usual (and inevitable) post crash interview usually goes...."And what is the aircraft called, Sir?.....FRED?....No, Sir. I suggest you take this more seriously and tell me the REAL name"

Try googling G-info website and search the database.
I don't know how to post pictures.

Company motto...."It doesn't fly, the earth merely repels it"




Potest Fieri Ut Sues Volent

[TwoDeadDogs]

Hi Blue up
I used to fly a VP-2 that only left Mother Earth because said planet was round.There was definitely a Stuka gene in there somewhere because it used to descend like one when the throttle was closed!:}
regards
TDD

[blue up]

FRED (series 2) as mentioned in my post above.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j279/foggythomas/fredinclose.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j279/foggythomas/goingforaweighing.jpg

It can be towed backwards behind my car at a speed that exceeds the forwards max velocity in level flight.:ok:

[SASless]

Sikorsky Shortski (shortened version of the S-61 built by Carson Helicopters)

[ShyTorque]

Blackburn Wanderer

Short Sardoun

English Electric Fencer

Cessna Pitts

Bristol Barndor

Bell Ringer

Kamov Itluv

Wallis Angromit

Westland Wardrobe (Oh, no sorry - that one was real).

P.S. I thought that ATP stood for Aluminium Transport Plane...

P.P.S. There really ought to have been a Sopwith Shytorque (or a Hawker Shytorquer) :ok:

[TwoDeadDogs]

Hi all
What about aero engines? No one seems to give them names anymore.It's all CFM this and Jt that, or "the ****er won't start!". Any takers?
regards
TDD:}

[blue up]

Has anyone else seen the Webster Whirlwind? Homemade (YES!) crank and crankcase, 7 VW Beetle pots and 7 DAF Variomatic heads. (Think "the sort of things they made in USSR 1960s" technology)
Makes about 95hp and hung on the front of a homebuilt. Makes more noise than thrust. Maybe Webster Buttwind?

[Woomera]

GAF Nomad? :{

Oh, sorry, you're talking silly names!

I thought you said silly air frames..... :}

[ShyTorque]

GAF Nomad? :{
Oh, sorry, you're talking silly names!
I thought you said silly air frames..... :}

Naff Gonad?

[glhcarl]

But DH Canada also made a Buffalo.

Convair made the Coronado (not so silly) but their predecessors, Consolidated-Vultee, also made a Coronado.
The Coronado was named after a section of San Diego. Consolodated-Vaultee and Convair were based in San Diego, makes sense.