What's in a Name?
 

I'm frequently fascinated by the names people chose to use here on PPRuNe. And I often wonder how people choose them. Some seem to make sense, but others are completely baffling. I know a lot are devised to protect the guilty, but would anyone care to shed any light on what devious aviation (or otherwise) links you were thinking of when you decided to be Bravo Alpha Lima Lima Siera, or whatever?

I used to be Gen Bombdebastards after the Kenny Everett charachter, but was asked to change it by the mods after 9/11 happened.

User names......
 

...I think you'll find somewhere in the dusty archives a thread entitled "origins of user names" or somesuch. It's not trerribly enlightening.

(enjoyed your book/blog/diary thingy BTW. I'm sure I remember you as a sprog when your Dad was driving 120. Dear god that really dates me.)

The Ancient Mariner

Mine took ages to devise....

:ok:

I own a Rover P6 and have a driving licence.
:ok:

McC, don't try to pretend you thought it up yourself. We know.

Rossian. I was a sprog then. Haven't changed a bit, you know. And the name?

errrrr...forgot!


Oh yeah! I wuz won.

The first 'real' people I encountered in the RAF were the groundcrew on my UAS. On the sign-out desk they had a wooden box on which were mounted two model pilots from the very large-scale Spitfire that Airfix used to produce. The right arms were capable of being glued in any position and had been placed rather lower than would be expected for holding a joystick.

Under the pilots it said, in Letraset, '99 Change Hands'.

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This was mine (actual car) when I signed up. A W107 280SL Roadster.

I was once OC SSF at Waddington

One of my navs used to pass me, the stick monkey, a (real) banana when I done good (using one of those car aerial pointers from the back cockpit)

If you move appointment and aircraft type every year or less for long enough, very quickly it becomes dificult to work out which tour you are on when people ask.

1st tourist...
2nd tourist....
3rd tourist....
etc ad infinitum....
.....and eventually just Tourist seemed apt.

Could never get the smell of the Chipmunk starter cartridge cordite out of my nostrils ... I thought my chosen "handle" was preferable to CorditeSniffer :ok:

I am Russian and was once told a very funny joke - the upshot of which resulted in me chortling so hard that I experienced an embarrasing detachment of my genitals!

500N is short for 500 Nitro which is a cartridge I use in a Westley Richards 500 Nitro Double rifle.



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On tankers we were rather proud of our position at the bottom of the social heap which was topped by the FJ guys (or so they thought;)) and relished our nickname of "tankertrash". Oh yes, and I was a nav.

As an Engineer I was going to have screw loose, but thought I used nuts and bolts more, so I though bollocks, i'll have a nut instead..


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Situation Normal etc etc!! Seemed appropriate when I first registered and still feels that way!

Airborne refers to the first half of my life in the RAF - jumping from C-130's and balloons and Aircrew covers my remaining time as a Loadie...

All very simple...

Quiet in the cheap seats... :p

Quite simply, my name is Max and my friend's wife used to call me Maxibon. Not terribly original but then I'm not...

"500N is short for 500 Nitro which is a cartridge I use in a Westley Richards 500 Nitro Double rifle."

And there was me thinking it was something to do with helicopters!

(I really should stop thinking)

I was as surprised as the investigation team that it was one of the last recoverable phrases on the ADR. Looked quite stark on the transcript and the 3 dots were a nice touch. I use the name to remind myself that sometimes the day does not finish quite as well as one hoped for.

Rigga
I hadn't realized till I came on here that the link existed !
Either way, they are both expensive hobbies LOL :O

Just this once... - having transcribed ADRs also, I've often said that my epitaph will probably be "It seemed like a good idea at the time".

Simples - I have a dog that is a doodle!

(ps Courtney, we have previous - you wouldn't want to give the stude an unusual position recovery in the pure vertical now would you????? Cue centralise, ensuing tailslide, fuel coming out of the intakes and entirely predictable flameout!).;)

Casting around for a username when signing up, a copy of Military Operations: France and Belgium (I think it was one of the 1918 volumes) was sitting on my desk. The Official Historian, Brigadier-General Sir James Edmonds was nick-named 'Archimedes' and since inspiration was once again lacking (see my posts since 2001 for illustration of this), that's how I ended up with the username.

Torched a few engines in my time through Buffoonery/bad luck.

'Rhino power' the stuff thats gets F-4s into, and hopefully keeps them, in the air! Saw it originally in an Osprey publishing book (Recce Rebels?) which featured Nevada ANG RF-4Cs, it was a caption to a picture of an RF-4C getting airborne, the caption read, "Listen to that, no wonder rhino power makes me horny!"
Quite eloquent i thought...

-RP

Ex-Herc driver, ergo an ExAscoteer.

It just popped into my head and seemed like a good idea at the time...

The occasional pleasure of Helmand.

LZ

Good on you OF:D

The only honest man on Pprune

And funny, as it is a pun on "Rhino Powder"!

Rhino Horns and Humans - National Zoo| FONZ

I live in Silicon Valley but hail from near what is now "London" Southend Airport. Many moons ago we were testing a game based on networked semi-motion reclining "pods", and my fellow testers figured skylimey fit.

M

First solo at Teesside. I called ATC and requested 'Taxy, dual'. My QFI replied and told me to count the number of persons in the aircraft. DOH......

Sasless.......Having flown all manner of Stabilized Bell mediums for several Operators I fetched up in Saudi Arabia for Aramco to discover some very true genius lurked at that place. In the words of one fellow when asked by the Chief Pilot if he had ever worked for PHI.....our Hero responded...."Not until I hired on here!"

Thus setting the stage.....Aramco Management (ex-PHI of course) somehow ordered IFR Bell 412's, changed the order to 212's, insisted upon Air Conditioners but cut the Sperry Helipilot systems to save weight....then cut the AirCons to save more weight and get more performance and thus spent lots of money, got a less capable aircraft and left the 212's "SASLESS".

Then....insisted that Night Flights over the Oggin with lots of well known haze limiting Vis to far less than any lights were visible....still called it VFR.

I was so impressed with that kind of wisdom, and absolute genius.....I assumed the name......"Sasless".

AGS = Arresting Gear Systems. I could have Arresting Systems Specialist but ASS Man didn't sound right!

In my green phase I served in the Artists Rifles, now an airborne regiment.

Because that's what I am ............

O-D

I'm not 'harry' but AR1.. The displays were known as TDS ( tedious) Mk5 would have been a better handle.

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