Nicknames
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Slightly off topic but the Airbus A320 was given the nickname "John Wayne" after an asian airline crashed one on approach to Kathmandu a few years ago.
I couldn't work out why either until someone asked me "John Wayne, Didnt he climb hills, chop down trees and kill Indians?"
No Offence meant - honest!
I couldn't work out why either until someone asked me "John Wayne, Didnt he climb hills, chop down trees and kill Indians?"
No Offence meant - honest!
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Well if GPS thought we were complementing his navigation then hope he reads this. The standard process while an Officer Cadet on sea training from Dartmouth has everyone doing his part of the taskbook work then copying the rest from a mate. GPS got the best marks by lending out his work with deliberate errors, then correcting his errors when other people had already copied it. Hence, GPS.
At JEFTS (Joint Elimentary Flying Training) even before he arrived his name became a tri-service watchword for doing things for yourself - if you made your own tea and didn't ask if anyone else wanted one you were a "tea B*******e". So much so that when he did arrive crabs who didn't know him said it when he was around
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Is Ferengi still inside? I'm not, and have been busy on an ATPL course so am a bit out of touch. I may be able to guess who you are, and if I say I failed AFT at the end of the course on Mk6, you may be able to guess me, and even recognise my contribution above (he would have been a term behind you at BRNC).
At JEFTS (Joint Elimentary Flying Training) even before he arrived his name became a tri-service watchword for doing things for yourself - if you made your own tea and didn't ask if anyone else wanted one you were a "tea B*******e". So much so that when he did arrive crabs who didn't know him said it when he was around
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Is Ferengi still inside? I'm not, and have been busy on an ATPL course so am a bit out of touch. I may be able to guess who you are, and if I say I failed AFT at the end of the course on Mk6, you may be able to guess me, and even recognise my contribution above (he would have been a term behind you at BRNC).
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In addition:
A folically challanged guy aboard a ship I was once on "fivehead" - it was like a forehead, only bigger!
And I once made the mistake of asking a guy in my new flight why he was called UMF - apparently it stood for Ugly Mother F*****
And at College a guy called Nick Alcock, soon got nicknamed "Noballs"
Oh and 2 fat guys on a lynx flight were known as LARD flight. "lynx aircrew requiring diet"
Thats all folks :-)
A folically challanged guy aboard a ship I was once on "fivehead" - it was like a forehead, only bigger!
And I once made the mistake of asking a guy in my new flight why he was called UMF - apparently it stood for Ugly Mother F*****
And at College a guy called Nick Alcock, soon got nicknamed "Noballs"
Oh and 2 fat guys on a lynx flight were known as LARD flight. "lynx aircrew requiring diet"
Thats all folks :-)
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A particularly obnoxious Kipper Fleet driver was debriefed on his nickname around the squadron - BLC. "Dunno what you're talking about boss, news to me!" It stands for Bumptious Little C***! Said BLC went to another Sqn where they didn't like BLC, so they renamed him TCL - That C*** L**. Anagram for BLC is Evil Dead. You know who you are!
Another was BRIAN. Stood for Bru*e Robb is a N*b. (well BRIAK was never going to work!)
FIAT.... Fr8$er is a Tw*t!
etc etc
Another was BRIAN. Stood for Bru*e Robb is a N*b. (well BRIAK was never going to work!)
FIAT.... Fr8$er is a Tw*t!
etc etc
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...an Aircrewman observer known to all as 'Vasco' - after that other famous navigator...
...Lynx pilot known openly as 'Bullet' - later known as SABOT, 'cos they're even quicker...
...an exchange crab with an occasional unfortunate speech difficulty known widely as '44Foxtrot'...
...'OSLO' - Outer Space Liaison Officer...
...and the John Wayne post reminded me that we used to call the old shiny loo paper by the same handle, as it was rough, tough and it didn't take s%@t off anybody...
love this thread!
...Lynx pilot known openly as 'Bullet' - later known as SABOT, 'cos they're even quicker...
...an exchange crab with an occasional unfortunate speech difficulty known widely as '44Foxtrot'...
...'OSLO' - Outer Space Liaison Officer...
...and the John Wayne post reminded me that we used to call the old shiny loo paper by the same handle, as it was rough, tough and it didn't take s%@t off anybody...
love this thread!
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There was a delightful girl on my IOT course called "Clang", because that was the sound the shovel had made when it hit her face.
A chap at Waddo was called "Thrush" because he was an irritating C***.
Two girly nav studes at Finningley were asked to do recce briefs on consecutive mornings. Subjects: "Squat-eye" and "Flatface". Purely coincidental I'm sure.
A chap at Waddo was called "Thrush" because he was an irritating C***.
Two girly nav studes at Finningley were asked to do recce briefs on consecutive mornings. Subjects: "Squat-eye" and "Flatface". Purely coincidental I'm sure.