AFTER TIFFIE
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There's nothing to say the MRA4 was going to be a bad aircraft, in fact it was to going to be one of the most advanced MPA around, it's just BAE were way behind schedule and hence probably over budget (not sure about that)
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Tiffie's been referred to as Tiffie here since 2002.
In any case, one must be incredibly pompous to object to such nomenclature. I'd opine a 'spotter' is more likely to use the full name, no doubt with FGR4 included too.
In any case, one must be incredibly pompous to object to such nomenclature. I'd opine a 'spotter' is more likely to use the full name, no doubt with FGR4 included too.
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Just doesn't sound very, well, tough or hard does it?
It has always sounded like a name given to it by the spotter types rather than serving RAF. Whilst I was in, and since when I have been out, I have never heard it referred to by anyone serving as Tiffie.
Tiffie, just sounds distinctly soft.
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It has always sounded like a name given to it by the spotter types rather than serving RAF. Whilst I was in, and since when I have been out, I have never heard it referred to by anyone serving as Tiffie.
Tiffie, just sounds distinctly soft.
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It was certainly `tonka` at Laarparts in the early eighties...that, or maybe `the perpetual hangar queen` 
Tornadoes have been known as Tonkas by those that fly and maintain them for as long as I can remember. The allusion to chunky 'toys for the boys' is quite apt!
I've heard some pilots call Typhoon the 'Phoon, but typically only when wishing to make a derogatory statement (sometimes lengthened to Buffphoon for clarity). Most of the time it's plainly and simply Typhoon.
Staff officers who've never flown either sometimes call them "Ty" and "Tor" - because that's how they often appear in documents. Tiresome.
I've heard some pilots call Typhoon the 'Phoon, but typically only when wishing to make a derogatory statement (sometimes lengthened to Buffphoon for clarity). Most of the time it's plainly and simply Typhoon.
Staff officers who've never flown either sometimes call them "Ty" and "Tor" - because that's how they often appear in documents. Tiresome.
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Quite right! Some non-aircrew members of the service used to refer to the 'Tonka' and 'Timmy' for the TriStar seems to have been an RAF Mount Pleasant thing, but I doubt whether anyone in the armed forces uses the name 'Tiffie'.... Which is incorrect in any case; the wartime nickname for the Hawker Typhoon was 'Tiffy'.....
Neither was the Buccaneer ever referred to as the 'Brick' nor was there ever any such beast as the 'Phantom F Mk 3' except in spotters' circles!
Spotters fantasists and flight sim heroes call them Dave, Tonka and Tiffie.
Flyers don't.
Flyers don't.
Neither was the Buccaneer ever referred to as the 'Brick' nor was there ever any such beast as the 'Phantom F Mk 3' except in spotters' circles!
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Ah yes, Thomas the Tank Engine can still remember the dayglo zaps that [kept] appearing on the road signs back in the day [and ever since]..
Tourist, wow! what could one say indeed.
Tourist, wow! what could one say indeed.
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Actually Tourist has unwittingly hit upon a truism there.
The generic name for mil fj from a groundcrew perspective was CABS as they spent 99.9999% of their life flying about with little purpose, well, apart from breaking themselves.......
touché
The generic name for mil fj from a groundcrew perspective was CABS as they spent 99.9999% of their life flying about with little purpose, well, apart from breaking themselves.......
touché
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Quite agree, I have always called my aircraft a "cab", though it is more a rotary thing in my experience.
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I'm certainly not either an ex-Typhoon driver nor a spotter. But a friend of mine who was a Typhoon driver (now peacefully flying tourist day-trippers) refers to them as Tiffie and to Tonkas as Tonkas. He left before Leuchars closed.
So no one thinks w could ever produce a Lightning again? We'd always have to ask the Americans or the French/Germans "please can we use our aeroplanes to shoot something down?"
Presumably we can't hot wire the F-35 to use as we wish, when we wish.....
So no one thinks w could ever produce a Lightning again? We'd always have to ask the Americans or the French/Germans "please can we use our aeroplanes to shoot something down?"
Presumably we can't hot wire the F-35 to use as we wish, when we wish.....