Silly aircraft names

[Churchill Polar Bear]

Trying to google the Hawker Hedgehog, if found the
Sopwith Tabloid , which can be seen here. (better place for an airplane than a gutter, methinks. )
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 methinks

[Mr Proachpoint]

Supermarine Slough?
Bristol Bracknell?


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[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

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[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.

[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"




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[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/j2...redinclose.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...raweighing.jpg

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

[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)

[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?