Name Tags
 

BMADAITY


Buy me a drink and I'll tell you!

Following on from TwoTunnel's

FIAT- Fraser Is A Tw@t

He was joioned by a new, slightly shorter nav who was soon to be called 'Cinquicento' because he was 'a little FIAT'!

In similar vein to Leatherman, 'Gerber' because he was complete tool.

And the ugliest officer on the Sqn = TDF



As ugly as Two Dogs F**king!

Earth- Zero Potential,how true.

Lava lamp- nice to look at but useless.

Klunk- A rarther Scottish FS who tended to speak in ultrasound, grunts & whistles, off the cartoon catch the pigeon... Made rarther more amusing when the said FS asked the whole crew room who this Klunk chap was as he had never met him!

Opium- Slow working dope

Dome light-( one for the Herc mates) You had to bash him with a broom to make him work.

Many more that escape me at the moment.

Guinness... Was dark skinned strangely with light ginger hair.

One young lad was nicknamed ten gauge which I didn't understand until one of the workshop guys explained to me that ten gauge was a metal that was very difficult to work with,and another lad in the same section seemed to have a rather pointy head and he was nicknamed drop tank.

LSB?
 

Yes

Little S**t B*LL*S

Ex-Boss of 17(F) many years ago......Mansa (Man's a cu.....you know the rest).

Keymaster (from the Ghostbuster movie).

There are more but the memory is not what it used to be. :(

'Pang' was a dead ringer for her nickname - is she still in?

Yes she is... And a very respected operator too.

WHAT'S IN A NAME
 

I went through advanced pilot training with Wappy Tupper and I flew with 'Crash' Elmett on 543. But my fondest memory is of the QHI who was such a hit with the ladies that he was known as Spunk Trumpet. I wonder where Dick Head is nowadays?

Crewroom Nicknames
 

ISK late 70's
NLS shifts had two Crew Chiefs as controllers,Line and Rects.
Ours were called Orak and Zen: The all knowing computer and the one who overrode him. Blake's Seven was popular then.

Met him at a Yeovilton Airday a few years back proudly wearing his name badge for all to see!! Was instructing at Shawbury then.

Or due to his habit of correcting people that called him Dick, 'Dick call me Richard'. What were his parents thinking? Maybe they didn't like him.

HTB .. which is where I met him, when (stangely for a crab[fat]) I was on 141 HSP. Unbelievably ;) the RAF were tinkering with flying training then and thought something like the HSP (75 hrs Chipmunk) followed by straight onto the JP 4 :eek: might be a good idea ...... but then they also thought checking fuel downwind in a Chippy at night with a right-angled torch to see the gauges in the wings was a good idea :eek::eek:

Courtney

Turning to Ric Head, he once told me that an ancestor (cavalier??) Sir Richard Head had been wrongfully executed, and his last words - for some reason - were to put a curse on the family if there weren't a "Richard" in his memory in every succeeding generation ......

Probably BS, but I always was gullible :8

A few more from the Kipper fleet that immediately spring to mind;

EMU - Fat bird that can't fly.
FUD - ##cking Useless Dryman.

Now where is Flaunt??

"Or due to his habit of correcting people that called him Dick, 'Dick call me Richard'. What were his parents thinking? Maybe they didn't like him. "

Not Military and not a nickname: My Brother in law is "John Thomas"

jaj

Keymaster is still aviating for HM, I believe.

Channel 5 - cos around here receptions really bad on Channel 5.

A civvy contractor I worked with became known as "sexy fingers"...

Not because she was tidy, but everything she touched on the aircraft ended up f**ked.. :}