Your favourite plane nickname
 

Whats your favourite name for typical GA types around the place

Some I've heard of :
Musketeer = Mousecatcher
C172 = One heavenly two
Tomahawk = Traumahawk
Aztec = Aztruck or even a pigdog

But I bet you's have heard more tho' :O

Ahh yes. The Traumahawk. Has almost totally replaced the tomahawk around here apart from some nobs who actually like the darn thing,- The Turbohawk

Twin Otter - twotter

Partenavia - Partial aviator or part-banana

Islander - bongo van

Bonanza - Bonza

Twin Comanche - Twin catastrophe

Seminole - Semen hole

Travelair - Trouble Air

Any KAL Airliner - Big blue korean death machine

NAVAJO = Never go

WARRIER = Worrier

CUTLASS = Gutless

METRO = San Antonio Sewer Pipe

QUEEN AIR = Spleen Wear

MU2 = Rice Cooker

BANDEIRANTE = Brazilian Coffee Grinder

TWIN OTTER = Weather balloon

Not GA but

744 = The Gravy Train

WoooWoooo


hmmmmm sweet gravy!

Few more...

BAE 146 - Quadrapuff
Chieftain - Chief Stain
Dash 8 - Dash Late or Crash 8

...

From the Military side of things...

Chinook - Chook (nickname for a chicken in Australia for our O/S mates)

Black Hawk - Schnorker (only used by non Black Hawk pers)

Kiowa - Kenny

Twin Otter - Twatter

F111 - Pig (derives from the official name for an F111, Aardvark which is Dutch for 'earth pig'.

Nomad - Gonad

From the GA side of things...

Bandierante - Bandit
Piper Cherokee - Pooper Chickapee
Duchess - Gutless


Keep 'em coming ladies and gents.

C337- Mix Master.

METRO - Meatray, Death Tube, Flyin' Cigar, Stick Creature .... 2 name a few...........
:p

Green Gravel Truck ........... ahhh, how I miss the sound of those R2000's!!!

And thinking of radials - who remembers the Twin Pin?

Woomera

Wasn’t that a Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer?

Yup :ok:

But what is a Green Gravel Truck?

Don't you mean "Grumbling" Green Gravel Truck ??

Albert and Tonka, two of my faves, Albert is so comforting and sums up that no nonsense piece of kit that just does what it says on the box. Tonka is great because it is a lovely toy for lucky little boys.

Thud, so named because of the noise it made; terminally.:uhoh:

B1900D = Flying Forehead or Horse Float

C337
Push me, pull me or
Suck and Blow.

CG

Tobago = Toboggan - i.e. glides like one

C336 - suck blow
C337 - super suck blow

cresco = crashco

Transavia Airtruk----The Ugly Duckling.