Silly aircraft names
 

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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:)

But DH Canada also made a Buffalo.

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

Nieuport Pagnell?

Fairey Nuff?

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-

Sopwith 8f.1 Snail

Martinsyde Elephant

Neither of which really inspire a great deal of confidence.

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.

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.

Consolidated Accounts

Short A**e

Hunting Horn

North American Continent

- and its less successful derivative, the Incontinent

And of course, the Silly Fokker!

;)

Boeing boing baggies

Supermarine Spitfire

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

"Bloody silly name for an aeroplane!"

The Douglas Fairbanks

The Martin Chuzzlewit

The Spartan Interior

The Fleet Street

I'm getting the hang of this!

Airspeed Indicator

Canadair Dry

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

Sorry, dredging for it...

Halberstadt is better than none Treaders.

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:

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

The Macchi Thatcher...

BAC T'front

Miles Away

Armstrong Wrestling

EE (BAe) Gum

Just an Ilyushin

Antonov'er one

Sukhoi Sioux...

MiG Welder

Armstrong Starter :ouch:

Handley Page-Turner

Bell Carillon

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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.

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

Ryan Air



Time to spare, go by air.
Hen Ddraig

Handley Page HP39 Gugnunc (it's true!)

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

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

Conestoga. Flying stainless-steel streetcar.

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

Hughes 300:

Pissquick

Cabover chainsaw

Piper Aztec:

Flying barn door

Dornier:

Doorknob

During the fuel price squeeze of the 80's GE developed its UDF (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 stood for the local convenience stores - United Dairy Farmers.

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

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

...or the English Electric Kettle.

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 (I'm not a trian spotter I'M NOT!)

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.......

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

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'

Percy's
 

What's a Proctor or a Prentice?

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

Cheers

Southender

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