Amusing nicknames

[bell hater]

I was having a bit of a chuckle about some of the nicknames that some pilots have acquired over the years, “The Heli-Tubbies” (two portly pilots), “one hundred and ten Ben” (jet ranger pilot), “The Feral Goat” (you can work that one out) any other good nicknames out there?



Disclaimer: This post is only for fun, and the author holds no responsibility for putting noses out of joint, fragile egos hurt, or the upsetting of squares and spoil-sports

[peachpilot]

I heard about a guy called Poodles, who refuesed to fly anywhere without his little Poodle - It had a home behind the pedals !! :\

[Farmer 1]

I once met a chap called Kinnell.

Apparently his nickname was Foo.

No idea why.

[bigruss]

Where i grew up there was an old drunken crocodile shooter called Sputnik. Apparently he and and a group of cronies in fit of patroitism at the time of Russia's success had their own space programme going. We are talking about 4 derilects on a 2 month bender using 2 44gallon drums welded together with a charge of explosive underneath. The cosomonout was our hero with a dog for a co-pilot and a bottle of rum for rations. Of course the dog died and Sputnik became a resident of the hospital for a long while.

[Wizzard]

I used to have a newt called 'Tiny'



Why?











Because he was my newt:O

[Tuckunder]

New a mate at Wittering known as AWF. He was chuffed thinking it was "all weather fighter pilot". Sadly for him it was "Avacado with Feet"!!

[Blackhawk9]

When I was in the mob the aircrew used to be called GSD's- Green Suited Dicks, nothing personel to about 95% of them just a name and as i was a Flight Fitter (Crew Tech) I wore Green Flying Suits as well :-)

[glyn thrash]

i know a guy that is named Blinky,, bad, bad man,,

he has put 3 fixed wing's into fields by running out of fuel, 2 of which fliped. withen 4miles of the airport. he has had numerous hard landings and the A&P that we have at the airport refuses to work on his aircraft..
from what i hear, he is blind in one eye and can barely see out the other, for real.. he is about 50 something and his best pal is a Doc, so he keeps his medical up and good. to be honest, i haven't seen him in the air in about a year.. if i am in the air and i know he is near by, i will leave and come back after he has landed..

[lartsa]

how about the AAC officer called KING his nickname was WAN

[Cpt.Archer]

I read somewhere that Ewan McGregor`s(the actor who plays Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars) brother is a pilot in the RAF and his nickname is Obi Two.

[magbreak]

In the 90's on the southern north sea we had a co pilot who had a somewhat laid back attitude to life. He was nicknamed OSLO (Outer Space Liason Officer)!!

[serf]

Leatherman - useless tool carried by everyone

[TeeS]

That is priceless Serf, thank you. Request permission to use that one?

How about ‘Kelvin’? – He was an absolute zero!

Cheers TeeS

[Dis-Mystery of Lift]

Here are a few from my Ex-Mil Days,

SLUF- Sleazy Little Ugly F##Ker
Opium- Slow working Dope
Clock - A guy who had one hand bigger than the other.
PD - Poison dwarf
Young Spider - Because a spider has eight Feet(Think about it)
Two Dads - For a guy with a double barrel name.
Muckhole - for a very easy young lady.
Trickypig for a guy who's last name was Cunningham.
:ok: :ok: :ok:

[Fantome]

At YSBK there once skipped about a dangerous Piaggio pilot known as 'The Laughing Gnome.'

'Foul Bowel' is a well known fellow, name of Howell. His twin is variously known as C and C (or K and K) 'Couth and Culture'.

They had an associate curiously called 'Virginal Stillborn', renowned for paint stripping halitosis.

'The Hat' was a renowned PNG operator, with enough different headgear to wear something new each day of the week.

(The very best and original will be found searching the record for Australian shearers and wharfies.)

[SLBAGAGE]

We had a captain we used to call "seagull" because the only way to get him to get airborne was to throw chips or rocks at him.

[Boost Pump]

Met a guy once his name was B.I.F (Bullet in foot) apparently whilst wearing his sheepskin UGG boots whilst on a bender he beleived his UGG boot was a rabbit and unloaded a 22 cal into it!....quite funny but not so for BIF!

[R1Tamer]

A couple more for the record:

"Moggadon" - The sleep inducing medication which is exactly why one utterly boring guy inherited this name.

"Thrombo" - short for thrombosis, 'slow moving clot' which is exactly why another fella got this name.

"10-9" - the unique code used to summon assistance when the proverbial hit the fan which seemed to always happen when this incompetent nugget was about.

R1tamer

[John Eacott]

A couple spring to mind:

Speechless One, a delightful RN QHI, who never spoke unless absolutely necessary. The original grey ghost, but not related to Speechless Two of this forum ;)

Captain Personality, for obvious reasons: total lack of :p

[IHL]

I knew of one pilot the guys referred to as
" Pompous Pilot". ( The Christians out there will get the metaphor).

[Thomas coupling]

John, where is speechless one now?

[John Eacott]

TC,

Not sure: I'll see if I can find him in the FAAOA Blue Book when I'm at work tomorrow.

[Flyt3est]

Had a Pilot on my Navy Squadron years ago - "Steady dim"

and one of the mechanics - "Brain Cell".. cos he only had one.

[WASALOADIE]

ALF - Annoying Little F*^Ker

[6Z3]

Remember Lt Dick Noble, aka Cher.

[jayteeto]

A navigator known as TAPS, he thought Terminal App Plates, we thought Thick as Pig S**t.

Another Foo, this time Kennard was the name.

On one SH squadron, the crewman regularly asked 'Mint Sir?' to one of the pilots. Say it fast, it was the way he walked around, very camp.

[gadgetguru]

seagull managers are a dime a dozen;
they fly in, make a incredible amount of noise (over nothing), **** over everything, then fly off again....

a few less adoring:
Oxygen Thief
'Specialist'
'X-spurt'

a few more crass ones:
Size 9 (enough kicks in the arse from constant stuff ups to now comfortably fit said boot size)
WOFTAM,
FONC
FINCL
Pert (this is a local brand of ant-dandruff shampoo with a variant called 'Head & Shoulders', referring to the effect to an arse-kisser cause by a sudden stop of the arse-kissee)

[MightyGem]

Come across the occasional Thrush, in my time.

[SAR202]

We had a ground engineer variously known as:

Bungalow-nothing upstairs or Wedge-the simplist tool known to man.

[Gus T Breeze]

I once worked with a 'Tiffy' who was known as 'Sparky'. He was delighted, as he thought this alluded to his rapier wit. In actual fact, he was being likened to the spark required for ignition in a piston engine - fat and retarded!
I also worked with a guy called 'Thrush', as he was an irritating c**t!

[MCA]

There is a father and son combo, in Australia with the names of ‘The Wizard’ and 'The sorcerer'

[Blue Rotor Ronin]

There's an Aberdeen co-jo, who on residing for a week in Shetland became known as 'the oxygen thief'. We've got a 'seagull' and a 'sick-note' here. Love the 'leatherman', have a few uses for that one.:ok:

[WASALOADIE]

There is a Gimlet (small boring tool) who used to be on SH.

Jayteeto, remember the "Mint Sir" on the way to Stavanger? best call by far!

[uncle ian]

A certain army officer cadet who married rather well (into the royal family) was known as "Foggy" when at the academy........................Thick and wet!

[Robbo Jock]

Perfect for the Royals, then. :D

[peterperfect]

Had a mechanic on my HDS Flight in the 70's his nickname was "Spin", his surname was Dwyer !

A P2 on a USN SH60B detachment had "Bobbitt" on his name tally, his surname..... Adcock !

[Fantome]

James Strong - 'Jimmy Bowtie' - former chair of Qantas, acquired some military acumen (?) when a 'Cordie', or cadet at Duntroon Military College. There, he also picked up the handle:

NOTSA

[kennethm]

A couple of not so popular fellows:

FIGJAM - F*** I'm good just ask me

LOMBARD - Loads of money but a real ********



loved the Leatherman, will need to look for a recipient to rename

[HOSS 1]

Hey, I flew with Bobbit, long ago (HSL-44, Det1). Great nickname for sure.

But my all time favorite was SH guy called WEFTY. I originally thought it was a slurred "Westy", but I quickly learned it stood for "Wrong Every F**king Time" !!

HO5S

[Wunper]

Had a vertically challenged mate in the RN called SPIN

Shortest Pilot In NATO

W:ok:

[6Z3]

For two PM's that didn't get the Cher nickname, as in:

"Remember Lt Dick Noble, aka Cher"


........total disaster is the clue,

?


?


Cher..................Noble

[bullshitproof]

The editor of the local paper in manchester picked up the nickname BIFO and he used to think this was quite good as he fancied himself a bit and he thought it was taken from the character in the beano comic strip, but it actualy stood for BIG IGNORANT ****ER FROM OLDHAM.

[nutcracker43]

Knew two unfortunate ones, onr was known as 'Gusset' and and the other as 'Silversleeves'

Gusset was our CP because seemingly he was the closest thing to a 'you know what'.

'Silversleeves' was a nav on our squadron who always had a runny nose and used to use the cuff of his tunic. He ended up on the Queen's Flight eventually.

NC43

[NotHomeMuch]

Had chief pilot/manager type called "Mirror Man" 'cos whenever an issue was put in front of him stock reply was "I will look into it" and then usually nothing happened!

[SASless]

Frosty....Japanese American pilot....."A Nip in the air."

Bravo Delta.......Brain Dead

Delta Delta Sierra......Dudley Dumb****

Two Dogs....derives from the joke about the American Indian Brave who keeps asking his father the Chief why he is called "Two Dogs" and not something like Buffalo Bull, Bull Elk, or something of the like.

[Hummingfrog]

We had a nav called "Wedge"........simplest tool known to man.

HF

[bellfest]

Worked with a fella called "Dolly" due to the fact that it was a hell of a show every time he attempted to land on one.

"Wicked witch of the west" due to the resemblence of cyclic input to stirring a couldran.

"Trapeze" because his father wished he had seen him flying through the air.

[Semi Rigid]

Nobody - because nobodys perfect

Knew a chick flying line once who was known as 'BOBFOC'. Body off Baywatch Face off Crimewatch.

[Flingingwings]

One of my all time faves:

Sledge - Because he's only pulled by dogs.

[on21]

There is a lad that we call Turkish Slipper.

Why?

Because he always turns up at the end!:D

[heliduck]

BUC - big useless c@^#
NATO - no action, talk only
POTHOLE - every one went around him
CAR ALARM - made a lot of noise but no-one paid any attention

[Mel Effluent]

'The Pill'

Small, round, and no conception!

[jellycopter]

At work today I had to chuckle at a couple of nicknames I'd never heard before which got me thinking of some of the more entertaining ones some indiviaduals are 'christened' with.

Todays gems were

'Leatherman' - given to a guy because he's a useless tool that everyone carries.

'Figjam' - F*_+ I'm Good, Just Ask Me.

Some older ones

'Gimlet' - small boring tool

'Taps' - given to a navigator that thought it referred to the RAF Terminal Approach Plates (TAPS) but was actually because he was as Thick As Pig S4i+.

'ILS' - given to bloke who thought it was becasue he was good on instruments but actually he was just an Irritating Little S4i+.

What nicknames have you heard that make you chuckle?

JJ

[ShyTorque]

Wedge. Simplest tool known to man.

Fluf. Fat little ugly f****r.

Tons. Because Snot comes down your nose.

[The Governor]

Pigeon - because you have to throw stones at him to get him to fly and when he finally does he sh*ts on everybody.

2 Amp - because he was prone to lose his temper and hence... you've guessed it.

[SASless]

"Fumes"......noted one fellows fondness for drink....above and beyond the call of duty!

"Hose Nose"......applied to a Cajun fellow with a prominent facial feature.

"The Flying Kipper"....famous Nigerian Quartermaster whose head followed the aircraft pitch attitude.

"Foghorn".....given to a supervisor who sounded off despite not seeing what the situation was.

"****face Six".....Vietnam Era Chinook pilot who had a drinking problem....even when compared to his peers.

"Tip Cap"....A Bristow CP know for his ability to remove Tip Caps from Alouette blades by striking trees in the Iranian desert.

"Cow Killer"....truck driver who killed two cows on a desolate Nevada highway.....one outbound....and two days later one home bound (within a quarter mile of each other to boot.

[TRC]

Vick - Because he gets up your nose.

Enos - Because 'e 'nows everything and too much of him gives you the s**ts (Enos was a laxative, don't think it's around any more)

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Thrush - an irratating c***

Black Dog - because his black dog is always blacker than your black dog and if you've been to Tenerife, he's been to Elevenerife!

[Flying Bajan]

Dipstick.... dimwitted student who lost the dipstick from an R22 (not replaced during preflight), then flew it to Atlantic City from Frederick, MD... then gave friends rides, then attempted to fly it back - only curtailed when alt light cam on due to oil splatter on alt belt.

[jemax]

Not aviation, but girl in my old office known as BOBFOC

Body off Baywatch, Face off Crimewatch

[JTobias]

Jacko

Are you bored?
Let me guess the wx was sh**e and you had nothing else better to do.
Which begs the question why I didn't get a phone call?

J :ok:

[DBChopper]

Q-Plate - a man who had had so many operations we weren't sure what year he was originally constructed in;

Two ****s - because if you'd had one...

****legs - he fell in a cesspit one day (no, really)

Thames - he was wide at the mouth and full of **** (there seems to be a recurring theme here)

Pearly - well, with the surname "Gates" what did he expect?

:)

[John R81]

For a girl at the office

Bauble

"a visually pleasing object of little intrinsic value"

[nigelh]

You should hear the one we have for you jj :eek: i couldnt possibly post it here or it would be taken off by the mods ( like quite a lot of my valuable posta :ok:)

Jetcock .....a friend of mine who ,on a first date ,was being stroked by his girlfriend under the table .......a public humiliation :(

[grizzled]

in Her Majesty's Royal Canadian Navy: Capt. J. Witt. . .
"Point Five"

[Tail-take-off]

"Black Cat" because if you had a black cat he had a Panther!

[squib66]

Thromby - a bloody clot

[xraf]

A couple of Non PC Airforce ones from the 80's

Thrombosis - A slow moving clot

Cuffs - Cheer up for F***s Sake

:ok:

[jolly girl]

"Triple A" - Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere

[nutty04]

I dated a girl called "Tarzan". She would swing of anything. :mad:

[tacr2man]

"Ankles" because he was so far up the bosses ar$£ thats all you could see :rolleyes:

[Foxy Loxy]

"Lighthouse," because the individual it referred to was as useful as one in the desert.

[Reefdog]

Office Girl called

Showbag Was full of S--t

[Fark'n'ell]

Worked on an oil rig many years ago.There was a guy we referred to as OPIUM. Slow moving dope.(True)

[Arnie Madsen]

Mudduck (or Mudhen)

Nice and smooth on the surface , paddeling furiously underneath.

[Bullethead]

A lady acquaintance called 'Mangrove' because she had an indiscriminate rooting system!

A RAAF chopper driver called 'Hubcap' because he thought he was a big wheel but he was really only a . . . . . .

A bloke I met in a pub in Cirencester called 'Harpic' because he was clean round the bend!

Regards,
BH.

[Thridle Op Des]

One of our managers is called TCAS, the last two letters are his initials and the first two are for 'That ***t', now we have other managers who have the first two letters attached to their initials, TCED for example, we are building a whole family! (I'm not sure what TCED stands for, but it makes us feel better)

TOD

[Goggle Up]

'Blisters'......'cause this guy only comes out after the work's done. :ok:

[blakmax]

Knew a guy once who was called "Uckker". His name was Cox. You work it out.

Another fellow was called The Interstellar Traveller - Don't know which planet he is on, but it isn't this one.

[TalkSpike]

Along the same vain, pardon the pun, knew a guy called Sux, his last name was Allman.:eek:

[Davey Emcee]

Had an aircrewman called "transponder" cos' he was **** all use at low level.

[Thud_and_Blunder]

"Slinky" - no real use or purpose, but brings a smile to your face when you push him down the stairs.

...no-one from the AAC has mentioned "Klang" yet.

[Raven30]

Jigsaw - every time he got more than 2 tracks on the screen he went to pieces.

[SASless]

Two old girlfriends....one was tagged as "Twin Pac"....for good reason.

The other was nicknamed "Strut Pump".....as any good Engineer knows why!

[Noah Zark.]

Our company had a Rep who sat at a desk all day, and never went out (looking for work)- Pilot Light.
A guy who was a real pain in the ar$e _"Haemorrhoid",
and a local gal who was known to be a bit free and easy- "Yo-Yo knickers".

[PO dust devil]

I had an acquaintance named Mal who was/is "function":rolleyes:

An EMS crewman I worked with "Bedsores":O

[MartinCh]

one thread on S America forum of PPRuNe mentions two brothers called 'torpedo'. One torpe, the other pedo. (torpe = clumsy or dim-witted, pedo either noun fart or adjective as sloshed/smashed/drunk, in case you don't do Spanish)

[topendtorque]

"three dogs". A helicopter examiner from the department mob in Adelaide some years ago, well everyone else had two dogs eh? a proper smart arse.

"centre peg" a name bestowed upon a rather long legged sheila whose boyfriend (a rather famous heli gingerbeer) had equally short legs, and a Harley. a most amusing sight at the traffic lights.

"MD" when it wasn't "CD", standing for mental defective or clinically dead, he was like that for years, another rather famous heli gingerbeer.

[jellycopter]

An RAF SAR pilot known as 'Search' because he'd never actually completed a rescue!

[EESDL]

"Klang" - The noise the spade made when it hit her in the face!

"Sledge" - because he's always getting pulled by dogs...........

"ISM" - a crewman on 72 who was the "International **** Magnet" - even made me look good blah blah

"F££kwit" - because he was a complete F££kwit !

[Rocket2]

10BA - because she was the smallest screw on the squadron :\

[jolly girl]

"Ahab" - he tended to go for the big girls

"Juice" - He was quite the lady killer (for those not from the States this is in reference to a highly publicised trial during the 1990s)

[101BOY]

'Durnitz' because he was obviously going for tonnage from the look of the girls he went out with.:E

[NotHomeMuch]

Ex senior management.... or should that be damagement fella. The FRUB - Fat Rude Ugly Bastard.

[helofixer]

"Top off" a pilot who wont go anywhere without a full bag of gas, even if it is a 60 mile round trip inland VFR.

"Captain Crunch" a pilot who breaks stuff or is PIC on an aircraft when things get magically broken and he didn't see anything, hear anything or notice anything up to and including broken vent window sliders, missing fuel caps and mysteriously self inflating life vests. Has an annoying habit of grasping the interior plastic trim around the pilot's door door post and heaving his ample arse into the cockpit, crunching that nice brittle bell plastic to dust. Swears up and down it was like that when he did his pre flight. (HA!)


"Button boy" a pilot who will futz with every switch, knob, lever, setting, frequency, menu and widget in the aircraft because he is bored, obsessive compulsive or is just wired that way.

[Freewheel]

"The Fun Sherrif"


Used to get upset when anybody showed any signs of amusement.

[teeteringhead]

Another one for the (apparently common) guy who will always go one better:

Seven Toes ... if you had six, he'd have seven.....

And of course Kelvin Rucksack, the absolute zero carried by everyone, and finally, the RN beefer surname Sleman .... known as Splunk

[skid shoe]

It seemd like everybody in the RAAF had a nickname except for one bloke. It didn't matter how many times we tried to pin one on him, they just didn't stick. So we called him "Araldite" .......and that stuck.

An Engineer at CHC called "Ten-men". Because it would take that many other men to be as good as he was - just ask him.

The bike rack - an Accountant with one helicopter company that was so intent on impressing the CEO it was reckoned that he would drop his pants and bend over just to give the boss somewhere to park his bike.

[TRC]

"Captain Crunch" reminds me of someone I worked with:

'Passion Fingers' - everything he touched he f**ked.

Oh, and another,

'Charcoal' - an avionics bloke who was awarded the Distinguished Frying Cross by his mates. It was made of four blown fuses, not just blown but BLACK.

[Rigga]

"earth" - Lowest potential.

"Jack" - cos he was only in it for himself.

"MAC" - Man's a C**t

"JCB" - Job Creating Bast@rd

The last three could have been the same person!


And finally - there was once a WO at Odiham we called "Interfere-RON" but not because he made things better!

[DBChopper]

Rolf - He was a Right Obnoxious Little F:mad:r!

[cockney steve]

A group of elderly pilots who shared a plane at Barton (later written-off when the Heli-pilot forgot that FW stalls if too slow )
the unfortunate hull was registered G ?? LW, and their jollies were somewhat brief, due to a weak bladder.....hence they were the Leaking Willies.

the above scurrilous rumour is secondhand hearsay.....but i did see the remains of the pancaked airframe :}



A guy (ex-forces) who claimed to be ex SAS, but was employed as a (rough) car-mechanic.
dubbed REME (rough engineering made easy)

[ericferret]

Salvage one

Pilot famous for lifting anything he could make a dollar from.

Most famous exploit was underslinging a load of unwanted scaffolding from a rig 70 miles out,dropping it on a beach and collecting it later with a trailer.

[DTibbals53]

Pig F****r.

Some thought it was because he was a total slob, until they saw his wife, then they understood.

[Flash2001]

Sodium: Slow to start and not very bright when he finally got going.

After an excellent landing you can use the airplane again!

[rotorrookie]

"Thunderpants" cos there always bad smelling gust around him

[Scattercat]

"Cornflakes" ... somehow he just looked like a serial (cereal) killer?

[greenslopes]

"Rust" Cos you'll find him in everyones car( too tight to but his own)

[chuks]

My last outfit used three-letter codes for everyone, based on your last name. Then there was this one rather annoying guy who had FOS even though that wasn't even close to his name. When I asked I was told it meant Full Of Sh!t.

The funny thing was that he didn't seem to mind. I guess he was so far up someone's fundament that he was bullet-proof but anyway, I am gone now and he's still there. Lots of these nickname-holders are like that, sort of human cockroaches able to survive even a nuclear disaster that would kill a normal human.

[topendtorque]

"thong", same explanation as 'ankles' above.

"the rock" with several prangs and a name like 'stone' ?

Dust devil reminds me of one FSU operator from Kununurra, way back when, with the monica of 'malfunction'. (is it the same dude dd?) He was an esteemed member of the local afterburners club. a very funny man with a distinctive voice on the HF static, but a thorough and highly regarded professional by all from Karatha to Cloncurry. one only had to cough and he was onto you in case you had a problem.

"Toucan" adminstered in favour of a KH4 tourist driver by a very hard case parks ranger. He used to get your attention, lean toward you and slowly move his index finger from brow to mid air about twelve inches south west of his chin, then back up to his moustache line, while softly administering the 'toucan' word, then he would give one a surreptuous nod and wink, and slowly disengage your direct communication. get the picture? yep the dude had a big beak for sure.

"picket" named for a bad mistake he made once by lifting a fence picket into the path of an oncoming '47 blade while shutting a cockies gate under the rotor disc. It didn't damage the blade, bent the fence picket double and should have taken his silly head off, but it didn't scratch him.
Later seen and heard as coey on one of those russian models in NG, (ahem - both types, those with legs and those with blades) but refuses to answer the monica for a chat on the local RT, I've heard. He'll keep.

[Droopy]

"Toucan" for a different reason.....that's all the mean fecker ever took to a party.