What's in a Name?

[Courtney Mil]

I'm frequently fascinated by the names people chose to use here on PPRuNe. And I often wonder how people choose them. Some seem to make sense, but others are completely baffling. I know a lot are devised to protect the guilty, but would anyone care to shed any light on what devious aviation (or otherwise) links you were thinking of when you decided to be Bravo Alpha Lima Lima Siera, or whatever?

[WASALOADIE]

I used to be Gen Bombdebastards after the Kenny Everett charachter, but was asked to change it by the mods after 9/11 happened.

[Rossian]

...I think you'll find somewhere in the dusty archives a thread entitled "origins of user names" or somesuch. It's not trerribly enlightening.

(enjoyed your book/blog/diary thingy BTW. I'm sure I remember you as a sprog when your Dad was driving 120. Dear god that really dates me.)

The Ancient Mariner

[McC]

Mine took ages to devise....

:ok:

[P6 Driver]

I own a Rover P6 and have a driving licence.
:ok:

[Courtney Mil]

McC, don't try to pretend you thought it up yourself. We know.

Rossian. I was a sprog then. Haven't changed a bit, you know. And the name?

[Rigga]

errrrr...forgot!


Oh yeah! I wuz won.

[99 Change Hands]

The first 'real' people I encountered in the RAF were the groundcrew on my UAS. On the sign-out desk they had a wooden box on which were mounted two model pilots from the very large-scale Spitfire that Airfix used to produce. The right arms were capable of being glued in any position and had been placed rather lower than would be expected for holding a joystick.

Under the pilots it said, in Letraset, '99 Change Hands'.

[Roadster280]

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j99/roadster280/280.jpg

This was mine (actual car) when I signed up. A W107 280SL Roadster.

[Waddo Plumber]

I was once OC SSF at Waddington

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

One of my navs used to pass me, the stick monkey, a (real) banana when I done good (using one of those car aerial pointers from the back cockpit)

[Tourist]

If you move appointment and aircraft type every year or less for long enough, very quickly it becomes dificult to work out which tour you are on when people ask.

1st tourist...
2nd tourist....
3rd tourist....
etc ad infinitum....
.....and eventually just Tourist seemed apt.

[CoffmanStarter]

Could never get the smell of the Chipmunk starter cartridge cordite out of my nostrils ... I thought my chosen "handle" was preferable to CorditeSniffer :ok:

[Lafyar Cokov]

I am Russian and was once told a very funny joke - the upshot of which resulted in me chortling so hard that I experienced an embarrasing detachment of my genitals!

[500N]

500N is short for 500 Nitro which is a cartridge I use in a Westley Richards 500 Nitro Double rifle.



http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc480/500Nitro/500NitroProfile.jpg

http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc480/500Nitro/500NitroFloorplate.jpg

[Tankertrashnav]

On tankers we were rather proud of our position at the bottom of the social heap which was topped by the FJ guys (or so they thought;)) and relished our nickname of "tankertrash". Oh yes, and I was a nav.

[NutLoose]

As an Engineer I was going to have screw loose, but thought I used nuts and bolts more, so I though bollocks, i'll have a nut instead..


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[snafu]

Situation Normal etc etc!! Seemed appropriate when I first registered and still feels that way!

[Airborne Aircrew]

Airborne refers to the first half of my life in the RAF - jumping from C-130's and balloons and Aircrew covers my remaining time as a Loadie...

All very simple...

Quiet in the cheap seats... :p

[Maxibon]

Quite simply, my name is Max and my friend's wife used to call me Maxibon. Not terribly original but then I'm not...

[Rigga]

"500N is short for 500 Nitro which is a cartridge I use in a Westley Richards 500 Nitro Double rifle."

And there was me thinking it was something to do with helicopters!

(I really should stop thinking)

[Just This Once...]

I was as surprised as the investigation team that it was one of the last recoverable phrases on the ADR. Looked quite stark on the transcript and the 3 dots were a nice touch. I use the name to remind myself that sometimes the day does not finish quite as well as one hoped for.

[500N]

Rigga
I hadn't realized till I came on here that the link existed !
Either way, they are both expensive hobbies LOL :O

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Just this once... - having transcribed ADRs also, I've often said that my epitaph will probably be "It seemed like a good idea at the time".

[doodledog]

Simples - I have a dog that is a doodle!

(ps Courtney, we have previous - you wouldn't want to give the stude an unusual position recovery in the pure vertical now would you????? Cue centralise, ensuing tailslide, fuel coming out of the intakes and entirely predictable flameout!).;)

[Archimedes]

Casting around for a username when signing up, a copy of Military Operations: France and Belgium (I think it was one of the 1918 volumes) was sitting on my desk. The Official Historian, Brigadier-General Sir James Edmonds was nick-named 'Archimedes' and since inspiration was once again lacking (see my posts since 2001 for illustration of this), that's how I ended up with the username.

[TurbineTooHot]

Torched a few engines in my time through Buffoonery/bad luck.

[Rhino power]

'Rhino power' the stuff thats gets F-4s into, and hopefully keeps them, in the air! Saw it originally in an Osprey publishing book (Recce Rebels?) which featured Nevada ANG RF-4Cs, it was a caption to a picture of an RF-4C getting airborne, the caption read, "Listen to that, no wonder rhino power makes me horny!"
Quite eloquent i thought...

-RP

[ExAscoteer]

Ex-Herc driver, ergo an ExAscoteer.

[obnoxio f*ckwit]

It just popped into my head and seemed like a good idea at the time...

[Hot_LZ]

The occasional pleasure of Helmand.

LZ

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Good on you OF:D

The only honest man on Pprune

[GreenKnight121]

'Rhino power' the stuff thats gets F-4s into, and hopefully keeps them, in the air! Saw it originally in an Osprey publishing book (Recce Rebels?) which featured Nevada ANG RF-4Cs, it was a caption to a picture of an RF-4C getting airborne, the caption read, "Listen to that, no wonder rhino power makes me horny!"
Quite eloquent i thought...

-RP

And funny, as it is a pun on "Rhino Powder"!

Rhino Horns and Humans - National Zoo| FONZ (http://nationalzoo.si.edu/publications/zoogoer/1997/1/hornsandhumans.cfm)
Contrary to popular belief, the Chinese do not use rhino horn as an aphrodisiac, but a few Indians do. Because of the high price of rhino horn, Indian dealers sell more abroad than they do locally, so use of the horn in India has become rare.

Indian pharmacists grind the rhino horn into a powder and mix it with herbs to increase its powers. The customer takes it home and mixes the rhino powder with honey, cream, or butter and then swallows the mixture twice a day.

[skylimey]

I live in Silicon Valley but hail from near what is now "London" Southend Airport. Many moons ago we were testing a game based on networked semi-motion reclining "pods", and my fellow testers figured skylimey fit.

M

[taxydual]

First solo at Teesside. I called ATC and requested 'Taxy, dual'. My QFI replied and told me to count the number of persons in the aircraft. DOH......

[SASless]

Sasless.......Having flown all manner of Stabilized Bell mediums for several Operators I fetched up in Saudi Arabia for Aramco to discover some very true genius lurked at that place. In the words of one fellow when asked by the Chief Pilot if he had ever worked for PHI.....our Hero responded...."Not until I hired on here!"

Thus setting the stage.....Aramco Management (ex-PHI of course) somehow ordered IFR Bell 412's, changed the order to 212's, insisted upon Air Conditioners but cut the Sperry Helipilot systems to save weight....then cut the AirCons to save more weight and get more performance and thus spent lots of money, got a less capable aircraft and left the 212's "SASLESS".

Then....insisted that Night Flights over the Oggin with lots of well known haze limiting Vis to far less than any lights were visible....still called it VFR.

I was so impressed with that kind of wisdom, and absolute genius.....I assumed the name......"Sasless".

[AGS Man]

AGS = Arresting Gear Systems. I could have Arresting Systems Specialist but ASS Man didn't sound right!

[airborne_artist]

In my green phase I served in the Artists Rifles, now an airborne regiment.

[Old-Duffer]

Because that's what I am ............

O-D

[AR1]

I'm not 'harry' but AR1.. The displays were known as TDS ( tedious) Mk5 would have been a better handle.

http://www.woottonbridgeiow.org.uk/decca-legacy/images/p27.jpg

[unstable load]

A few years ago I bought a motorcycle magazine that had a sheet of stickers in it and one of them said "Mentally Unstable Load" and it kinda rang a bell, so when I registered here, I used it but in abbreviated form.
I also used to fly as crew in the back of an S61 doing undersling and hoist work and some slung loads were "unstable", so it was a nice parallel for me.

[ACW599]

>On tankers we were rather proud of our position at the bottom of the social heap<

Surely the very bottom of the aircrew hierarchy is defined by Vigilant pilots on a VGS ;-) ACW599 was my callsign at 633 for a long time.

[Tashengurt]

In the late '80s I spent too many hours sewing new Tashengurts (Tachengurts according to some) onto Phantom brake 'chutes to stop them squidding. Scarred me for life.

[Whenurhappy]

The main operational airfield in the RNZAF is Whenuapai (NZWP), where I did my only operational flying tour in the 1980s. The Maori name presented problems for foreign (ie US) aviators and famously it was pronounced by a visiting P-3 crew as 'when u r happy' rather than the more accepted 'ffenoo-a-pie'.

Plus it is rhetorical - any one who knows me well knows that I am rarely happy and often angry!

[Exascot]

Ex-Herc driver, ergo an ExAscoteer.

Likewise, not very imaginative, but shiny 10s. And, sorry ExAscoteer I didn't know that there was a name so similar when I joined the forum.

[Halton Brat]

Arrived at RAF Halton, the College of Knowledge, in May 1971 (222 Entry). Signed on dotted line age 16yrs +2 days. Proud to have been part of a system which produced many luminaries, including Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle.

HB

[ZH875]

When I needed to get an aircraft for a slot, ZH875 was a reliable bet. And as a reliable sort of chap I felt the moniker fitted. Would have been a name change required if I had chosen ZH876.

[mike-wsm]

I notice OP has an interesting location, isn't that the airfield serving the Chiltern Hundreds?

[Black 'n Yellar]

...the black and yellow handle I was grateful to never have to pull!

[Tableview]

If/when my current user name is banned, I hereby give notice that I will come back as GOM, or Grumpy Old Man, or similar. I have frequently been asked if I wrote the script, so I may as well live up to the repuation.

[SOSL]

I own a company called Second Opinion Solutions Ltd.

Rgds SOS

[BEagle]

Dear Courtney Mil,

Thank you for your query.

Having given the matter much thought, I decided to adopt as my nom-de-PPRuNe the nickname bestowed upon me by the 56(F) Sqn QWIN some years ago as I felt that it would perchance be more appropriate than my real name.

Rgds,

Lady Amelia Sheyd Haugh-Dawe

[Ali Barber]

My barber's name is Ali and I live in the Middle-East (although a Neanderthal type English tourist on holiday did comment once that we must be very posh as everyone knew it was really called the East Midlands).

[HTB]

CM

If my memory serves me well (...I know, it's the start of a song - "Wheels on Fire") you told me in the billiards room in Akrotiri mess that your nickname was derived from the name of Lord Ware-Armitage's* manservant, Courtney* and suitably close to your real name to not confuse you when in drink (and did I remember correctly that you said your old man was a Gp Capt at the time ?). Don't worry if you can't remember, you were probably a bit dazed as a result of the fan-stopping game.

As for me, HTB is is an initialised reversion to an early sobriquet on a RAFG Tornado sqn (Harry the Barsteward); reversion caused by change of ISP with whom my Pprune name was Mister B and the name being disallowed by Pprune admin under the new ISP. Mister B arose because of an incident during an inter-sqn aircrew football game, when I made a robust tackle on a 33 Sqn pilot (JJ Burrows) which caused him to utter loudly "you dirty barsteward". Our QFI standing close by admonished this outburst with "that's Mister Barsteward to you son".

I have no idea why I attracted the "B" word - not because I was a forthright programmer with a hearing deficiency, or somewhat older than the average GR1 1st tourist with commensurate intolerance for rowdy children...:E

Mister B

*Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines - Terry Thomas and Eric Sykes

[Cubanate]

One of my first aerobatic manoeuvres in a JP5A - Simples!

[Akrotiri bad boy]

It all dates back to a previous life as a socially overactive Phantom Phixer and a case of mistaken identity. In fact the 30 year rule now releases the case paperwork from the archives.:mad:

[Top Bunk Tester]

Having tried to spend the majority of my flying life on said Top Bunk in the real Albert, not the plastic lookalike, I think I must have tested most of them ;)

[Poose]

I shall set the scene... Remembrance Sunday about ten years ago... Drunken night out following post parade 'drinks' with the old and bold.
My oppo and I found ourselves in the company of two Liverpudlian 'ladies'...:uhoh:

I awoke the following morning in a star shape feeling the worse for wear... and I appeared to be in a strange house... :suspect:
At that very moment my esteemed colleague popped his head around the lounge door and spoke to an unseen female, who was now looking at me with some disdain from the sofa on the other side of the room.

He issued the following query to my new companion: "So... how did Zeus do last night???"

She replied in that coarse, vitriolic manner that is reserved for such occasions: "ZEUS?!? ZEUS?!? More like fuchkkkenn poose!"

It took months to out live this episode... :O

[Tableview]

More like fuchkkkenn poose!"

Perhaps it's because I'm not familiar with the Liverpool vernacular (although I've been working less than 30 miles from there for the last couple of weeks), or I'm schtoooopid, but I can't work this oune out!

(In Afrikaans it does make sense and is very rude!)

[ricardian]

I chose my name because Mrs R is a staunch supporter of King Richard III. And it's easy to remember!

[Oceanz]

Where I spent my younger years and the area I spent it

[Herod]

Because he was a much misunderstood leader, and was around before Pontius even started basic training. The "handle" comes from one person's description of me as "mildly eccentric" and the fact that one of my previous jobs was with a company that featured a star in its logo and callsign.

[54Phan]

It covers my year of birth (1954, btw) and nicely ties in with my favourITE * jet and one of its many operating units.

(Colour me chastened!)

[ShyTorque]

Well....My father used to talk about the very large scavenging birds that always used to circle over Crater Camp in Aden, searching for rubbish, He was stationed there during his National Service in the late 1940s.

In the 1990s, I was a SAR helicopter pilot in the Far East (using the PRuNe name SARboy back then). Once, during a night Casevac, flight I hit one of these "****e Hawks; so big it blotted out the moon. Scared the living daylights out of me and for a few seconds I thought we were probably going down in the sea with the stretcher-bound casualty on board. You don't forget moments like that.

When I changed jobs it was as a police pilot, often circling whilst searching for rubbish (i.e. criminals). I discovered I'd lost my original username due to a big server crash during the time I was emigrating. This one fitted the bill.

[Cornerstone958]

From the Sgt's Mess the Cornerstone of the Royal Air Force where else?

[Mick Strigg]

A bastardisation (can I say that?) of "Mixed Rig"; a Naval term meaning the wearing of both military and civvy clothing at the same time, such as covering up your uniform with a civvy coat.

[Courtney Mil]

These are great. HTB, I do remember, my friend.

:ok:

[1.3VStall]

It's the speed I approach at!

[Ron Cake]

It was either Ron Cake or Vic Snotter. I wish I had gone for Vic Snotter - it has more bite.

[blaireau]

In my formative Hunter days, the breaking of wind had to be accompanied by the liturgy "BADGER BADGER BADGER, 123", Three whistles, and the words "one hundred and ten". (110 being the wingspan of the eponymous Russian bomber as wound into the Hunter gunsight). Until the full call was completed, all squadron mates could and would bash you. Try whistling whilst being pummelled.

The Fleet Air Arm were unfamiliar with this time honoured tradition at the time of my secondment in the early 70's, and soon my nickname and Air Defence callsign became "Badger".

In retirement, we lived for some years in SW France where a badger is "un blaireau".

Here in Portugal it is texugo, but I remain Badger to my old colleagues.

[Brian 48nav]

Come on, we're waiting!

Brian, obviously a nav on 48 Sqn, who beat the other Brians to it!

[phantomstreaker]

A collective nickname used by engineers on V sqn during mid 90s.

trend at the time was to run naked through various formal gatherings stark naked with zoro style mask on , the more formal the better.


the challange was past on to another ground crew member at the next event and the previous culprit stood next to SENGO/ WOENG in order to prove his innocense .

as the main instigator of this challange i usually held title for longer than others

Apologises to any aircrew wives who were traumatised by the events

[Courtney Mil]

I wondered about yours, PS. Style, friend Pure style!!!:ok:

[Canadian Break]

Same as CUBANATE - but different - if you see what I mean!
CB

[NutLoose]

Phantom, ever meet the Naked Ninja on 14 Sqn, dressed in simply a white Navy antiflash hood.. :)

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT9HNar8CkjCzAGXDFtlVpZbjYeQHa6aK3VJgZdBE_ oWACUROY7KA

[phantomstreaker]

CourtneyMil thanks,

can also be found on FB sites such as phormer Phantom phlyers as D B:ok:

[phantomstreaker]

Nutloose,

we have PM about this before ...strange similar sense of humour ;)

[BSweeper]

Now come on Beags - give us the real reason.

Shurely not short and phat, long ears, walks with a wobble, too shagged out with the least exercise and would like to chase wild animals but just can't be bothered.

A real fighter pilot would not take it - and I havn't seen many Beagles wearing huge watches and massive glades (well, there was one but that's another story).

Oh, and for the other F4 guys, the true identity of the "The Talking Armpit" revealed - I never knew but oh, so aposite.

[BEagle]

Nothing to do with dogs......

[BSweeper]

Soar with Beautiful Eagles?

[NutLoose]

British Eagle?

I thought it was something to do with the dog and possibly you could lick your own :O

[ShyTorque]

B. ald eagle?

[si.]

>On tankers we were rather proud of our position at the bottom of the
social heap<

Surely the very bottom of the aircrew hierarchy is
defined by Vigilant pilots on a VGS ;-) ACW599 was my callsign at 633 for a long
time.


I thought that acolade went to Viking pilots from VGS's. That's why I didn't choose ACW833.....:O

Perhaps a PM to admin for a user name change is called for....:hmm:

[CoffmanStarter]

BEagle = a past fondness for flying the Basset CC.1 perchance :ooh:

[MightyGem]

In view of the hours I spent in a Lynx listening to the roar of the mighty Gem engine. :}

[BEagle]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/BEagleSmall-1.jpg











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[Courtney Mil]

Good answer.

[ACW418]

My VGS callsign which I thought at the time would be really clever and unique. Should have done my homework. Another possible PM to the mods coming up.

ACW

[Melchett01]

BEagle, shurely you mean:

http://i2.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/590/draft_lens17643081module148260241photo_1297824487Red_Airplan e_Dog_by_istol

And I plumped for Melchett having spent a good deal of time watching Blackadder Goes Forth and being struck by the similarities between that and the shear insanity of where I happened to be working at the time.

[AARON O'DICKYDIDO]

I just thought it was mildly amusing.


Aaron.

[SOSL]

And it is!

Rgds SOS

[SOSL]

Well done for coming out BEags.

Rgds SOS

[diginagain]

In response to the oft-used quote "Why dig in, when you can check-in?"

[Two's in]

Far too many "farewell to BFG" flypasts for me, where it was all I ever got to say on the radio.

[Roadster280]

BEagle - Nothing to do with RAF Halton?

[BEagle]

BEagle - Nothing to do with RAF Halton?

Nothing to do with Halton, British Eagle, the Basset CC1 or any s*dding dog - it was simply a contraction of 'Bald' and 'Eagle'.....

Now, who remembers the origin of 'Lady Amelia Sheyd Haugh-Dawe'?

[zetec2]

zetec2: nothing to do with aviation, it was the (successful) quest to extract over 200BHP from a humble 2.0 litre Ford Zetec engine in my Focus.

But intrigued by a fellow posters name: Sycamore, knowing your history (Whirlwind, Wessex, Sea King & all sorts of unusual beasts) where did it come from, certainly not pushing said Sycanore in & out of the SAR hangar at Finningley surely, I know don't call me surely !) do tell.
Rgds, PH.

[Al Murdoch]

I was once lowered on a cable from a helicopter into an airborne 747 in which all the aircrew had been killed or incapacitated in a midair. I then landed the 747 at Salt Lake City. Lucky I was because up until then a stewardess had been flying the plane.
They made it into a film, I was played by Charlton Heston. True Story.

[longer ron]

Mine is just a modified version of the (french) word for an important structural part of a fuselage ie Longeron with an extra R.
My name aint Ron and it isnt Longer :)

[TT2]

Heh, heh. I know where I got mine. Others know, but it's a secret.:hmm:

[ShyTorque]

Nothing to do with Halton, British Eagle, the Basset CC1 or any s*dding dog - it was simply a contraction of 'Bald' and 'Eagle'.....

I told 'em so, but no on would believe me..... even after you posted a picture of one! :ok:

[dalek]

Chose Snoopy. ... Name taken.
Music for Dr Who started downstairs.
Chose Dr Who. ... Name taken.
Next thing I heard. ...

[NutLoose]

Quote:
Nothing to do with Halton, British Eagle, the Basset CC1 or any s*dding dog - it was simply a contraction of 'Bald' and 'Eagle'.....
I told 'em so, but no on would believe me..... even after you posted a picture of one!

You sure :E

longer ron

Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: sussex
Posts: 306
Mine is just a modified version of the (french) word for an important structural part of a fuselage ie Longeron with an extra R.
My name aint Ron and it isnt Longer


I thought the important structural part of a fuselage was the Galley..

[Belle and Sebastian]

The TV Programme of the 60/70s (white fluffy dog and mischeivous young owner)....and books by Mde Aubry.

And the Scottish popular beat combo releasing a few indie type records.

[TyroPicard]

Tyro = Novice or Beginner
Picard = the best Starship Captain ever...

I can't wait for newt to discover this thread...

[November4]

November - I was on November Team, MAMS

4 - rank position at time (Cpl)

[Four Types]

I have served operationally on 4 types....4 Eng Piston, 2 different fast jets and an ISTAR. I don't think many other people have serve 'operationally' on 4 types....but maybe this thread will prove me wrong!

[BSweeper]

Based on my first OCU F4 air combat training famil with the late Ray Dixon :D.

I seem to recall he went on a personal vendetta against another pilot instructor (Pete Walker?) and that I spent most of the time (about 30 minutes) contributing very little. Nav training didn't come into it - it was pilot "mano a mano". On each inbound turn, he asked me to try and get a lock, manoeuvred violently so I couldn't and then pulled max G on the pass, locking my ear to the radar. I think he knew exactly what he was doing.

After the flight, the other pilot asked how I did, "Completely useless", was his reply, "spent all the time listening to the B-Sweep” – hence my alter ego which is in memory of that particular flight.

I did have a long and lovely conversation with him 3 years ago at the TDPU which I shall always remember. A very special character.

[dead_pan]

I honestly can't remember. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

[Cim Jartner]

I love horse events, but didn't want to make it too obvious........

[Landroger]

I have an interest in a well known, four wheel drive utility and 'multi role utility vehicle, built since 1948 at Lode Lane.

I have a 53 plate one of the Td5 persuasion and another - a project at the moment - built in May 1949 which is rare as rocking horse poo and is going to be beautiful. :)

And before you ask, check my user name - it's a clue that the jokers round here can't auto edit into a another, rather disreputable, pile of steaming East German ordure that couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding. :ugh:

Roger. (Yes, that bit is real.):ok:

[SAMXXV]

Sad really. SAM is obvious. XXV sqn (Bloodhound). Spent many happy hours at Wildenrath *issing off incoming 19/92 Sqn F4's setting off the RWR's in 82/3.:ok:

[engineer(retard)]

I like making the politically correct squirm :cool:

[Yeller_Gait]

I have served operationally on 4 types....4 Eng Piston, 2 different fast jets and an ISTAR. I don't think many other people have serve 'operationally' on 4 types....but maybe this thread will prove me wrong!

The origin of my name should be obvious to anyone who spent any time on UK ISTAR aircraft, but for those who have not, it is a play on the nickname for a particular piece of electronics that was fitted to two of our ISTAR aircraft (but only one still in service).

A move south and two more aircraft types but the same roles makes a total of four (but both types still in service)! 10 jet engines and 4 props.

Y_G :ok:

[Union Jack]

Some very amusing and inventive monikers here but I'm still waiting for a minutely detailed explanation from Leon J.... :eek:

Jack

PS UJ - as always found at the sharp end .... of a ship at least!:ok:

[LS-4]

Just the designation of a nice little beauty that you practically wear when flying.

[rarelyathome]

In common with many

[Pontius]

I actually had someone say to me once that they "didn't get it", when they asked me about Pontius :hmm: Tried simplifying it with, "you know, miss-spelling of Pilate" but was still met with blank stares.....I'm very pleased to say he was of the Junior Service variety, so perhaps it's not so unbelievable :}

I joined in 1996 (if I remember correctly) when all this was fields and one bloody long email thread, so was fortunate enough to not have to add numbers to my moniker, nor some awful title such as 'Navigator' :E

[sixfootfive]

I'm quite tall.

[muppetofthenorth]

I'm a bit of a muppet.


And I'm from the north.

[PURPLE PITOT]

Fairly obvious!

[VX275]

Didn't want to have a sex change and call myself Mrs Hepple.

I insisted on waiting for XV275 to come available so that I could take my first passenger in it when I got my G1 rating in 1980.
VX275 had/has (she resides in the RAF Museum store at Stafford) a panel in the cockpit saying it was presented by a Mrs F D Hepple. We used to talk about the aircraft as Mrs Hepple and then write its serial VX275 on the log sheets.

[sisemen]

I started off with my first name followed by my last 3. However, I had a serious contretemps with the management who banned me 'forever' for referring to our arabian bretheren in the same way as we did in the RAF. Eventually I kind of won the tug of war and was re-instated but in the meantime I re-registered as Sisemen which is, of course, nemesis backwards because that is what I wanted to be to the management.

But my original is now resurrected in certain parts because sisemen was banned - apparently permanently again - by some partisan mods on JB.

Oh, it all gets far too complicated.....

[JFZ90]

Jagdflugzeug....hunter aircraft (fighter) for the 1990s...

[Col. Raymond]

You need to know your Biggles books

[stiknruda]

I joined as GD/N - immediately saw the light after reading the 1930's top-seller, Stick And Rudder by Langesweiche.

[Wokkafans]

Nathan Dennis White by any chance?

[Wokkafans]

Isn't it nine billion and then the stars go out :eek: (Arthur C. Clarke)

[high spirits]

Ozymandius, ex CAS? Ex ruler of a once great empire....

Mine is simple.

I like burning pianos in the Mess.

It's the age-old 'Officers excuse' the next morning.

[Collapsar]

Def "an old star that has collapsed under its own gravity to form a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole".

Sort of summed me up I thought.

[flipflopman RB199]

Strangely enough, nothing to do with Flip Flops, or my love of wearing them.

My name comes from a quiet and unassuming part of the mighty Swing Wing Arrow of Death, the otherwise boringly titled Turbine Pressure Ratio Transducer Unit or TPRT.

Known amongst friends as Flipflopman, due to the shapes on its casting looking not unlike a stick man, with massive feet.

The RB199 part was added after it turned out that somebody on the old PPRuNe system was also called Flipflopman.

And that, as they say, is that! :ok:

[OldnDaft]

OldnDaft because, well, I'm old and daft. Adminer by trade and still a proud serving member of the RAF.

[salad-dodger]

I've been known to give the salad bar a wide berth on occasion!

Salad-Dodger

[Doctor Cruces]

Terry Pratchett fan. Doctor Cruces is the head of the Assassins Guild before he was assassinated himself. Seemed appropriate at the time.

Doc C

[ORAC]

Unfortunately not, only another 999,999,999 possible middle and surnames to go (or there abouts). Hmm, amazing what you can find. How's the work at Saxonair?

[Motleycallsign]

Favourite radio call of Puma pilots who couldn't remember which MAOT Team was manning the LZ

[Roadster280]

If it wasn't Motley5, I wasn't there :)

[5aday]

5aday.
Not fruit or salad.

[Herod]

5aday As in "It takes all night to do what you used to do all night"?

[tarbaby]

From the region of Thunder Bay when making a position report came the call,"Motley One?" made my day.

[5aday]

At 65 I guess it does.....:)

[RedhillPhil]

I'm Phil and I live in (although not from) Redhill.

[Wander00]

Of the boats I have owned, my favourite was Wanderoo - 25 ft, wooden, a Luke 5 tonner, totally impracticable,, and almost as old as me.

[Genstabler]

If you don't know, you don't need to. Verstanden?

[Haraka]

It's Kiswahili for my name......
and "South East of Penge" is a rough heading towards my location......

[Sloppy Link]

In a control train there is a mixing box that dampens out feedback forces from the control surfaces whilst also preventing the agricultural stick holder from doing too much damage. The analogy of preventing too much force being passed down to those down the train whilst also preventing those from the bottom having too much influence on the top I thought was apt.

[Courtney Mil]

This has become so interesting that I have decided to send of bottle of half decent wine to the best/most imaginative/funniest/stupidest PPRuNe name. So, step up and tell your tale. Actually, I think another bottle for the best-told account.

Terms and conditions apply, offer may not be valid in all region, only ony one prize per household, competitors must be over 18, PPRuNe employees need not apply, our products may contain nuts or have been tested on humans.

[Tashengurt]

No fair Courtney! If you'd thought of that earlier I'd have made up something much more epic. And untrue.:{

[Courtney Mil]

Feel free to republish. No points lost for elaboration or embelishment. I like good stories, not necessarily true ones. If you don't believe me, read my journal.

[Canadian Break]

Courtney
A bit tame but I'll start the ball rolling. Whilst a stude at Linton in the early 80's I asked my instructor (the famous/infamous C***s W**n) to show me a Canadian Break. About a nanosecond afterwards after my head had rebounded off the canopy of the trust JP Mk 3 - he said W"you mean like that"? I was hooked and practised it endlessly. CB

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Bottle bid by Fox3WheresMyBanana

After a surprisingly good 2v2 split against a couple of Danish F-16s*, where I managed to get a guns kill on the trailer, there appeared over my right shoulder a banana. No, not a Bucc we had missed but a bright yellow one of the edible variety, dangling on the end of a telescopic car aerial (as affected at the time by execs who used them as pointers for briefings).

The stick monkey had earned his reward.

http://img1.etsystatic.com/000/0/5295440/il_570xN.111437593.jpg






*8th Aug 89, I've just checked

[Courtney Mil]

OK. This is better, Fight's on!

[red zebra]

Well.......

on second thoughts :oh:

[Rosevidney1]

On mature reflection I consider it unwise to even begin to explain my reasoning to a bunch of aviation chavs!

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

I'm a chimp, not a chav - higher IQ, better dress sense and far more socially acceptable.

We primates are so unappreciated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beCYGm1vMJ0

[fantom]

Because 'Phantom' had been taken.

I bent one quite badly once - by co-incidence it was my last flight in an F4...

[blaireau]

Wasn't that badly bent; it continued to fly as did the other machine I believe....

[Canadian Break]

On a similar theme Fox, I used to paint zips on them and put them on the table at Dining In nights at the Rock Apes place setting! CB

[fantom]

Odd juxapositiun/justaposition/being next to each other.

Ask Blaireau about dining-in night tables and the preparation thereof. Also the explosives used. SIB take note.

[TT2]

TT2 -actually means 'Tits up twice'. Others hold the evidence.

[Courtney Mil]

Any more before I send out a bottle?

[mike-wsm]

Sorreeee - late arrival - this is a really clever one - I'm Mike and I live in WsM - er :\

[Lightning Mate]

5aday.
Not fruit or salad.

Don't believe you - unless it's cigarettes......

[BEagle]

I'm Mike and I live in WsM

So, nothing to do with a penchant for $hit-kicking music broadcast from Nashville then, Mike?

WSM Online :: Home :: WSM 650AM "The Legend" (http://www.wsmonline.com/)

Yeee-hah!!

[5aday]

Lightning - I don't smoke.

[flipflopman RB199]

Lightning - I don't smoke.

What, not even after the fifth time?

[Union Jack]

I don't smoke.

What, not even after the fifth time?

The time-honoured response to which is of course, "I don't know - I never looked......"

Jack

[ORAC]

Lightning - I don't smoke.

TihgRRwwokU

[5aday]

Very funny,
Obviously an Bl/adder addict.
I've been known as 5aday since the late 60's early 70s.
Thats long before the fruit and vegetable idea.
It was a reputation - one I had to keep up! .....(pun) and something quite enjoyable. And still is.....

[Whodyanikabolokoff]

I require very supportive underwear.

[Stitchbitch]

Two wet behind the ears sprog pilots (due to later adventures one was to be named after a convertible, the other -RIP- a fuel warning call..) fresh from Wittering saunter into a BFG Harrier flying clothing bay. Turning to an airman hunched over a sewing machine, stitching rows upon rows of badges to things:

"Hello Stitchbitch, can you velcro my wings up.." Says the convertible one..

Couldn't possibly tell you my reply, but..

[Wholigan]

Simple - take the first 4 letters of my surname and replace the first 4 letters of the word hooligan with them. Some misinformed people seemed to think that I behaved a bit like the latter word when I was younger.

How could they think such a thing eh???

[oldmansquipper]

Was going to be `Flatstone 269` after my gliding competition call-sign...but I got older and forgot W.T.F I intended doing...So, after a brief moment of panic I had these vague recollections of 40 years as a squipper (man & boy) and settled on that ...

Does it qualify as the most boring?

(Great thread, Courtney:D.... - beats the Jeremy Kyle Show hands down for entertainment value;))

[Lightning Mate]

Wholigan

Some misinformed people seemed to think that I behaved a bit like the latter
word when I was younger.

Some of us know the truth! :E

[pohm1]

There were two English pilots at my first Australian employer, so I became Prisoner of Her Majesty 1

P1

[Green Flash]

A fleeting optical phenomena, seen in the desert, amongst other places.

[ancientaviator62]

Bestowed on me by my grandson, who, having read the 'Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner' decided that the 'conversion' was appropriate.

[Rossian]

.....Rossian is indicative of where I was born.

My sign-off was given to me by a German Navy commander boss who said "Is an aviator,is dressed like soldier but thinks like a submariner - must be "The Ancient Mariner".
He backed it up by quoting from memory " There was an ancient mariner who stoppeth one of three, by thy long grey beard and glittering eye o' wherefore stops thou me......."

The Ancient Mariner

[clicker]

Out one day taking some wildlife pictutes and the camera set on the fastest shutter setting of 7 frames a sec while trying the catch the action. Friend standing by me said I sounded like I was clicking.

[NutLoose]

Very funny,
Obviously an Bl/adder addict.
I've been known as 5aday since the late 60's early 70s.
Thats long before the fruit and vegetable idea.
It was a reputation - one I had to keep up! .....(pun) and something quite enjoyable. And still is.....


That's an awful lot of toilet time :rolleyes:

[Big Pistons Forever]

My handle is a probably forlorn plea to keep the mighty manly roar of big bore aircraft pistons alive in the skies.