Name the JSF

[rudekid]

Dawn French?

As in White Elephant.

[PPRuNe Pop]

I quite like Mosquito - it can do all it could do and a whole lot more.

Hurricane would also be good then you would Typhoon and Hurricane. That'll put the wind up someone!

[Jackonicko]

More a Blenheim or an RE8 than a Mossie.

[L1A2 discharged]

Mosquito? to compare: one was made of wood, renewable resource, good at what it was designed for, built to time and budget. The latest iteration: ?? I think not.

Hows about:

Folly

W Gates esq (Big Bill)

[4Foxtrot]

Meteor. Like the missile - falls to earth in a useless shower of sparks.

[ORAC]

You can't name US aircraft, they've tried. F-15 Eagle, F-16 Falcon, F-18 Hornet, who the h*ll uses them. Even if they name them, who uses them?

The B-1 and B-2 are the Lancer and the Spirit - but they're really the Bone and the Beak. 9(ets not talk about the Aardvark...)

Let it go, it will acquire a name......

[TheInquisitor]

How about "F-35 Fireblade"?
or "F-35 Ninja"?

Bikes have cool names....why not aircraft?

I quite like "F-35 Sh1tehawk" - the spams won't spot the irony...

[Just This Once...]

Originally Posted by ORAC

You can't name US aircraft, they've tried. F-15 Eagle, F-16 Falcon, F-18 Hornet, who the h*ll uses them. Even if they name them, who uses them?
The B-1 and B-2 are the Lancer and the Spirit - but they're really the Bone and the Beak. 9(ets not talk about the Aardvark...)
Let it go, it will acquire a name......

I suppose the Yanks make the mistake of letting the wrong people name their ac. Some names do work, they still use the term Eagle-driver and at least 'the bug' or 'plastic bug' gives a nod to the name Hornet. The Falcon was lame from the start. Even in development the F16 aquired 'Viper', which seemed to suit it more. Perhaps they are even learning. Didn't they re-name the F111 the Aardvark on its last day of US service? Then again, don't the Aussies call it the Pig??

I also like the fact that the Russians re-named the Frogfoot after its NATO callsign.

I still think the F35 'Dave' would say so much, on so many levels.

[TheInquisitor]

"Viper" gets my vote - 'cos it's the name of a cool spaceship

Or, in tenuous deference to 'Star Wars', the "Why-Fighter" - as in "why are we spending so much money on this....?"

[L J R]

Call the US models 'Jed', the Brit Models 'Nigel' and the Aussies 'The Roo'.


If the navy paint 'Fly Navy' on them, call em 'Squid Lips'

Must call the family version '??????'....actually cant think of something witty



....or we could settle on 'Dave' with 'Colin' being a close second.

[jindabyne]

Hunter --- or is that blasphemy? Or Sea Maiden, to appease the fishheads --

[KPax]

How about 'PRESCOTT' hugely expensive but not sure what it does.

[Zoom]

Good, KPax. Appropriate name for an ugly, overweight, overpriced penetrator.

[Rakshasa]

F-35 Colin?

No no, no. It's got to be called Danish! It works on so many levels.

[Expensive Baggage]

Originally Posted by Zoom

Good, KPax. Appropriate name for an ugly, overweight, overpriced penetrator.

With all due respect to KPax, if you added the word 'bleeding' to ugly, overweight, overpriced penetrator, you could call it a Tampax!

[brickhistory]

Originally Posted by PPRuNe Pop

I quite like Mosquito - it can do all it could do and a whole lot more.
Hurricane would also be good then you would Typhoon and Hurricane. That'll put the wind up someone!

I had always wondered why ALL the partners agreed to 'Typhoon' for the Eurofighter. I assumed that memories of Falaise Gap, etc. might have turned some of the buyers off.

"Sh1tehawk?" Yeah, we get it. Not terribly amusing, but we get it.....

The 'Vark was indeed officially named the Aardvark on its retirement day in US service. 'Pig' is also well-chosen IMHO.

How about 'Borg' for the F-35. If it comes off, then you will have been assimilated?

[peterperfect]

How about the Cure, and for the Navy, the SeaCure ?

or the Naplesandye, or.... you guessed it.....the Sea Naplesandye ?

These suggestions copied with (hopefully) permission of Trevor Lockwood (I think) when he ran an informal competition to name the EHI 01 back in the
80's.
pp

[ARINC]

Victor.... as in, "I don't believe it"

Fools and Horses...

Del
Rodders
Trigger
Boycey

and my personal favourite the F35 "Marlene" Not to be confused with that other TV great, "Martel"

[kluge]

F-35 Mullet - sort of says it all really

[airborne_artist]

Prescott - overweight, very expensive, makes a lot of noise as it goes up and down, small weapon-fit