Silly aircraft names
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Silly Aircraft Names
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.
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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...
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Couple more really silly ones, thinking of the old Tiger Club hangar at Redhillin 70s/80s:
Currie Favour
Cassutt Recorder
and...
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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
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the Supermarine Storer
the Bristol Brown
the de Havilland Dodds
the Gloster Griffiths
the Fairey Fitzpatrick
the Westland Wood
or the Miles MacRobbie
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Originally Posted by irishair2001
What about the Hawker Tomtit, The Budd Cannestoga (aka The Metal Abortion),...
I knew the test pilot. They picked him because he was the luckiest man alive.
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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.....
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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.....
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TDD
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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!
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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!
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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.......
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.......
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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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Westland Wolverhampton or the Bolton Paul Bolton (sounds like a there and back...). What might have been...