pilots' jargon and slang
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pilots' jargon and slang
I am a translator/interpreter at the Moscow-based Russian branch of Boeing and I am really eager to learn western pilots' talk, slang, jargon and stuff. I would really appreciate if you guys could dump in this thread some of your slanguage and sayings with a brief explanation of what they mean. I guess such thread could also be helpful as a pilots' talk glossary for the newbies.
Here's a bunch of examples of what I mean by slang:
George, to command George = autopilot
ETOPS =
In the cargo world, it stands for "Engines Turn Or Packages Sink".
In the airline world, it is: "Engines Turn Or People Swim."
Slam Dunk = Tactical Descent (steeper than normal visual approach)
"Keep your Engineer Wife, your First Officer house and your Captain's paycheck” (sayings like that also count as "slang")
Boredom Tube - slang synonym for a plane
Thanx everybody in advance
Here's a bunch of examples of what I mean by slang:
George, to command George = autopilot
ETOPS =
In the cargo world, it stands for "Engines Turn Or Packages Sink".
In the airline world, it is: "Engines Turn Or People Swim."
Slam Dunk = Tactical Descent (steeper than normal visual approach)
"Keep your Engineer Wife, your First Officer house and your Captain's paycheck” (sayings like that also count as "slang")
Boredom Tube - slang synonym for a plane
Thanx everybody in advance
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I am confused what's so confusing about my question folks 
Do you mean to say that there's no such thing as pilots' slang and jargon? IT folks have their jargon, navy folks have their jargon, any professional community has a jargon - some insider language, which can hardly be 'decoded" by a person from the outside. Will non-aviation folks understand what is "to throw gear" (be a copilot) or "to command George" without explanation. I am not talking formalized tech terms like "stabilizer trim" or "pressure relief valve" which cannot be understood by an outsider either but they can be easily looked up in a dictionary or a reference book. But stuff like "dive and drive" or "steam gauge plane" or "slow, low and dirty" is not in the dictionary. This is pro talk.
Do pilots always use official, formalized words when they talk about aviation stuff in informal settings like in a bar or on a message board like this?
Do you mean to say that there's no such thing as pilots' slang and jargon? IT folks have their jargon, navy folks have their jargon, any professional community has a jargon - some insider language, which can hardly be 'decoded" by a person from the outside. Will non-aviation folks understand what is "to throw gear" (be a copilot) or "to command George" without explanation. I am not talking formalized tech terms like "stabilizer trim" or "pressure relief valve" which cannot be understood by an outsider either but they can be easily looked up in a dictionary or a reference book. But stuff like "dive and drive" or "steam gauge plane" or "slow, low and dirty" is not in the dictionary. This is pro talk.
Do pilots always use official, formalized words when they talk about aviation stuff in informal settings like in a bar or on a message board like this?
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We call it 'Banter' over here old chap. The following training video should hopefully explain all...............
YouTube - Monty Python RAF Banter
Hope this helps
YouTube - Monty Python RAF Banter
Hope this helps
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How about a list of TLA's???
"There I was on my last LPC/OPC and the TRE gave us a NDB/DME APP instead of the usual ILS followed by a G/A and standard MAP due to ATC advising of FOD on the RWY."
Or something like that
Or something like that
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XOLODENKO - Sorry, but there is very little slang used in the professional civil aviation world as we are required to apply ICAO standard phraseology to our communications and this tends to carry over to our general discussions about aviation related matters and company SOPs require it on the flight deck. Sid Starz post shows the extent to which acronyms become common place and confuse everyone!
Most of the examples you have posted don't really exist in real aviation, apart from 'hot and high' meaning higher than the optimum profile and faster as well, or an airfield, like Mexico City in summer, that will be at least +30C and is over 5000' Above mean sea level. "Low and Slow" could suggest an aircraft in a landing configuration.
If you want to make a genuine impression you will do far better by learning the proper names for systems, procedures and situations etc. etc. people will know you have researched and are serious.
The last time I heard the auto-pilot referred to as "George" was on a cheaply made black and white film about fifty years ago!
Most of the examples you have posted don't really exist in real aviation, apart from 'hot and high' meaning higher than the optimum profile and faster as well, or an airfield, like Mexico City in summer, that will be at least +30C and is over 5000' Above mean sea level. "Low and Slow" could suggest an aircraft in a landing configuration.
If you want to make a genuine impression you will do far better by learning the proper names for systems, procedures and situations etc. etc. people will know you have researched and are serious.
The last time I heard the auto-pilot referred to as "George" was on a cheaply made black and white film about fifty years ago!
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How about this....?
Newlywed couple.
Wife takes Cabin staff position with airline.
Few months later, the somewhat jealous husband asks wife "Honey, you haven't been spending time with those pilots have you?"
She answers "Negative."
.......sorry, somewhat silly, but just came to mind.
Wife takes Cabin staff position with airline.
Few months later, the somewhat jealous husband asks wife "Honey, you haven't been spending time with those pilots have you?"
She answers "Negative."
.......sorry, somewhat silly, but just came to mind.
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Well, as you sit in your Scarebus,fat dumb and happy, thumb up bum,in 8/8ths severe clear-you better hope it doesn't all go Tango-Uniform and put you in the Cumulo Granite! Tea and bikies minus the Jaffa Cakes!
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Thanx for everybody's feedback guys!
K.Whyjelly, thanx for giving me the right word for how you refer to pilots' slang. I will make sure I'll use this one next time I post a thread with a question about slang on an aviation forum (I aroused similar confusion over my question when I posted a thread like this on Airline Pilot Central Forum, so I think if I had written "banter" everyone would've understood what I was after).
SNS3Guppy, I know the official meaning of ETOPS, sir, and I am more interested in unofficial ones like the ones I listed in my examples.
parabellum, thanx for your elaborate reply. I am fully aware that slang is not allowed in ops situations and must be invariably avoided. What I was asking for are the words you use when you chat with other pilots in non-ops situation like on a message board like that or in a pub or in a hotel room. But since you've mentioned that you pretty much use the same standard and official terms in non-ops situations as you use in ops, now I realize that the share of "banter" in the entire pilots' vocabulary is not that significant as I thought it was and there's little reason to explore this any further.
I've actually come across the examples I've listed while surfing thru the aforementioned US pilots' forum so I dare to assert they are not as nonexistent as you said they were
Me being an interpreter, my interest in "banter" is purely linguistic, not practical and I am collecting such words not to make an impression (since I can't think of a situation in my job where I could make use of them and even if there was one I would not use them coz folks for whom I usually interpret are not pilots and they will never understand those)
HOMER SIMPSONS LOVECHILD, could you please "decode" that one for me for errh...merely linguistic purposes?I can understand some bits like "Scarebus", "fat dumb and happy" and....well.. "severe clear" is something about clouds...that's about all I can decode ^)
K.Whyjelly, thanx for giving me the right word for how you refer to pilots' slang. I will make sure I'll use this one next time I post a thread with a question about slang on an aviation forum (I aroused similar confusion over my question when I posted a thread like this on Airline Pilot Central Forum, so I think if I had written "banter" everyone would've understood what I was after).
SNS3Guppy, I know the official meaning of ETOPS, sir, and I am more interested in unofficial ones
like the ones I listed in my examples.parabellum, thanx for your elaborate reply. I am fully aware that slang is not allowed in ops situations and must be invariably avoided. What I was asking for are the words you use when you chat with other pilots in non-ops situation like on a message board like that or in a pub or in a hotel room. But since you've mentioned that you pretty much use the same standard and official terms in non-ops situations as you use in ops, now I realize that the share of "banter" in the entire pilots' vocabulary is not that significant as I thought it was and there's little reason to explore this any further.
I've actually come across the examples I've listed while surfing thru the aforementioned US pilots' forum so I dare to assert they are not as nonexistent as you said they were
Me being an interpreter, my interest in "banter" is purely linguistic, not practical and I am collecting such words not to make an impression (since I can't think of a situation in my job where I could make use of them and even if there was one I would not use them coz folks for whom I usually interpret are not pilots and they will never understand those)
HOMER SIMPSONS LOVECHILD, could you please "decode" that one for me for errh...merely linguistic purposes?
I can understand some bits like "Scarebus", "fat dumb and happy" and....well.. "severe clear" is something about clouds...that's about all I can decode ^)
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737
Years back I heard these when referring to the 737:
SLUF - Slow Little Ugly F....r (and it appears, after reading some other threads, now folks are descending at 250kts, so pretty close to home)
FLUF - Fat Little Ugly F.....r
Presently (Scare)Bus guy, but still, Boeing and/or 'Douglas' rule............
SLUF - Slow Little Ugly F....r (and it appears, after reading some other threads, now folks are descending at 250kts, so pretty close to home)
FLUF - Fat Little Ugly F.....r
Presently (Scare)Bus guy, but still, Boeing and/or 'Douglas' rule............
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Here's a few sayings/slang/non standard phraseology:
Dangle the Dunlops- put the gear down.
Engauge cruise control- engauge the autopilot.
Motion coming on- said when disengauging the autopilot.
Dangle the Dunlops- put the gear down.
Engauge cruise control- engauge the autopilot.
Motion coming on- said when disengauging the autopilot.
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slowto280, here's the full list of aircraft nicknames, sir:
A10: Warthog
A318: Nanobus
A319: Microbus
A320: MiniBus, NintendoJet, ScareBus, Chainsaw, Deathjet, Freddie Kruegers wet dream, Toulouse Grasscutter, The Strimmer
(What's the difference between an A320 and a beaver? 4000 trees per hour.)
A320 is known as 'The John Wayne' Because they 'Chop down trees, move mountains and kill Indians!!'
A380: Double Decker Bus, Megabus
Alouette: Chicken chaser
AT6 Harvard: Halfard.
Avro Shackleton: Shacklecaster, 10,000 rivets in close formation, flying Cow, Old Grey Lady
Avro Vulcan: Tin triangle
AW62 Argosy: Whistling Wheelbarrow, Whistling Tit
BAC 111:Pocket rocket.
BAe146: Viscount 900, Smurfjet with 5 APU's, The Gas Chamber, Bumble-et, Baby Jumbo, Bring Another Engine, 1-4-Sick, submarine- low slow and out of sight, Airborne Auschwitz, Tonka Toy, 4 oil leaks connected by an electrical fault, The Quadra-Puff, Lead Sled, Mini Galaxy, Sky Dozer, Fisher Price 747, "1 aeroplane, 4 engines, needs 6", The Slug, Toxic Terror, Muffler (Because all the noise is on the inside), Fruit Bat, Flying cockroach.
BAe ATP: Advanced/Another Technical Problem, The Parrot (cos it's just a big Budgie), Ancient Technology Perpetuated, Bat Pee, Skoda, 80p, Wigwam (A TeePee).
BAe Harrier: Leaping Heap
BAe Jetstream: Junkstream, Wetdream, Soda-stream.
BAe Nimrod: Never Intended for Maritime Reconnaissance Or Development.
Bristol Beaufighter: Whispering Death
Beech 18: Flying snag
Beech 99: 99-Liner
Beech Baron: Ball tearer
Beech Bonanza: Doctor killer (its reputation as such is ubiquitous)
Beech 200: Super K
Beech 1900: Flipper, Dolphin, Stonefish
Beech T-34: Radial Interceptor
Bell 206: Deathranger, Hydraulic palmtree
Beverly: Flying Longhouse
Bristol 188: The Mayfly
Bristol Britannia: The Whispering Giant (Was this the original WG?), Freighter version: The Whispering Warehouse
Bristol Freighter: Freightener
B707: Slush bucket, Water wagon
B727: 3 holer, Tri-jet, Trisaurus, Triple crome-plated stovepipe
B737: Tin mouse, Maggot, Pocket Rocket Socket, FLUF (Fat Little Ugly F**cker), Light Twin, Baby Boeing, Fat Freddy, Guppy, Pig, Bobby (BOeing BaBY).
B747: Jumbo Jet, Whale, The Valiant, Upstairs and Downstairs, Lump.
B747SP: Short Plane, Stupid Purchase.
B757: Stick Insect, AtariFerrari, Slippery Snake
B767: Dumpster, Slug
B777: B737 on steroids, Cripple Seven (I.F.E. Problems??), Bigfoot
B24: The Crystal ****house
B52: BUMF (Big Ugly Mother f***er) or BUFF. (Big Ugly Fat F****er)
BN 2 Islander: 225 - 2 wings, 2 engines(?) 5 Wheels, Slander, Bongo
BN 2A Trislander: Try Harder, Bloody Nice Aircraft (!), Clockwork TriStar
CA-15 Winjeel: The Ginwheel
CAC Wirraway: The "Flying Chaff-cutter" (due to its clattering engine noise)
Canberra T17: Warthog (due to its warty nose)
Casa: Christ A Sh***y Aeroplane
Cessna 150: One Filthy, the buck and a half, Cesspit
Cessna A150 Aerobat: Aerosplat
Cessna 172 Cutlass: Strutless, Gutless
Cessna 177 Cardinal: The Pontif
Cessna 207: Crowdkiller, Slug, Moneymaker
Cessna 210 Centurian: Coffin
Cessna 337 Sky Master: Sky Maggot, Push-me-Pull-you, Mix Master, Bug Smasher, Push-me-Pull-me, Blow-me-Suck-me.
Cessna 402 Utiliner: Undyliner.
Cessna Citation: Levitation, Crustacean, Mutation, Slowtation, Nearjet, Bugjet
CF100: The Lead Sled
CT-4A: (which was painted bright yellow and green in Oz Air Farce service) - the Plastic Parrot
DC 3: Dakotasaurus Rex, Gooney Bird.
DC 6: Douglasaurus Rex
DC 7: Douglas Seven Seas (From DC-7C)
DC 8: DC Late, Old Smokey, Greasy8, Death Cruiser, Whiney Bird
DC 9: Greasy 9, Diesel 9, Pocket Rocket (series 10/15 only), DC3-GT
DC 10: Diesel 10, Death Cruiser 10, Crowd Killer
MD 11: More Death 2, I also like 'Scud' for the MD-11, once you launched it, you were not sure were it was going to land.
DH 82 Tiger Moth: Terror Moth.
DH Comet: Vomit
DHC 1 Chipmonk: Chippie, Chukmonk.
DHC 4 Caribou: The Gravel Truck ("The only aircraft known to man that could suffer a birdstrike from behind".)
DHC 6 Twin Otter: Tin Otter, Twin Rotter, Twotter, Stoneboat
DHC 8 Dash Eight: Dash Late
DO 328: Dork
DO 328J: Dorkjet
Douglas Maurader: Flying Prostitute
Douglas Skywarrior: 'All Three Dead' a mixture of its awful early safety record, three crew, and its US Navy designation of A-3D
EMB110 Bandierante: Bandit, Randy Banty
EMB120 Brasillia: Garbage Can, Brakillya
EMB145: Jungle Jet, Barbie Jet, The Windows 98 Plane (seems like you spend more time rebooting the aircraft than actually flying it), Bendy Jet, Emb180 (taxi to the runway, then 180 for taxi back to ramp)
F27: The Dutch Dog Whistle, Whistle Pig, The Converter - (ie, it converted fuel into noise). F50: F**kin' Fifty
F28: WhisperJet
Fokker 100: The Scud Because they point them at Europe and they don't come back!, Dutch Oven (lousy air conditioning)
FA 18: Bug, Rhino
Fairey Gannet: Converter of Kerosene to Noise
Fairey Swordfish: Stringbag
F-4 Grey Geese, "Luftwaffen-Diesel" (due to the noticeable smoke trails)
F-100 Hun
F-102 Deuce
F-104 Starfighter Flying coffin, Widowmaker, Manned missile
F-105 The Thud
F-111: Aardvark, The Pig
Fouga: Dog-whistle, Converter, Whistling Turtle
HS125: Pocket rocket
HS748: Paraffin Budgie, the Draggie, The Twenty Ton Dog Whistle.
HS Trident: Rodent, The Gripper
Gloster Javellin: Flying Trowel, Harmonious drag master, Flat Iron
Gloster Meteor: Meatbox
Gulfstream I: G-String, G-Once
Gulfstream IV: Fourskin
IAI Westwind: Lead Sled, Jew Canoe, Heebjet, Bagel Bomber, Yom Kippur Clipper
Jaguar: Septic Cat
Katana DA20: Flying sperm
Lake Amphibian: Doctor Killer
LearJet: FearJet, Noisemaker
L Jetstar: Lawn Dart
L1011 TriStar: Bistar (Had so many RB211-22B failures), El-10-Elemon, FrightStar, Tritanic, Swamp Eater, Swamp Buggy
C130 Hercules: Fat Albert, Trash hauler, Herkybird
MD 11: Mad Dog
MD 80: Mad Dog 80
MD 95: John Holmes condom
Metroliner: San-Antonio sewerpipe, Texas Sewer Pipe, Death pencil, The Screamin Weenie, Texas Lawn Dart, Swetro (in the summer), Baltimore Whore (no visible means of support, skinny lil 'ol wings), Terror Tube, "That noisy ******* thing", Widow maker, Kerosene Crowbar, Fear tube. Garretts on a Stick
Mohawk 298/Nord 262: Pteradactyl
MU-2: Widow Maker, Hiroshima Screamer, Rice Rocket, Kill You - 2
N24 Nomad: Go-mad, Gonad
Partenavia: Part-of-Mafia, Partial Aviator, Part Banana
PA-18 Tri Pacer: Pie Chaser
PA-23 Aztec: Az-Truck
PA-28 Arrow: Sparrow
PA-28 Cherokee: Cherry Tree
PA-28 Warrior: Worrier
PA-31 Navajo: Never-go, Have-a-go
PA-38 Tomahawk: Traumahawk, Terrahawk, SpinMaster, Rat**** Hatchet
PA-44 Seminole: Semenhole
PA-60: ScareOstar.
PC12: Platypus.
PBY 5 Catalina: Pigboat, Dumbo.
RJ70/100: Real Jet
SAAB 35 Draken: Flying Trowel
SAAB J29: Flying Barrel
S3 Viking: Hoover
Shorts Belfast: Belslug
Shorts Sandringham: The Triple Decker Bus
Shorts Skyvan: The Whispering Nissan Hut
Shorts 330: The Two Tailed Shed, Horse Float, Milk Carton, Winnebago, Box Car, Short Van
Shorts 360: Box, Shoe Box, Barn, Shed, Long Short, The box that the Skyvan came in.
Sikorsky S61N: "Miss Piggy", (fat and ugly)
Strikemaster: Constant speed - variable noise machine.
Supermarine Stranraer: Whistling ****house
Supermarine Walrus: Shagbat
T-33: T Bird
T-37: Tweet
TB-10 Tobago: Toboggan - because they only perform downhill!
Tornado: Tonka
TSR-2: Throw Some Rocks Two, Teararse
VC-9 Vanguard: Vickers Vibrator
VC-9 Vanguard Merchantman: The Guards Van
VC-10: Iron Duck, Vickers Knickers
Vickers Varsity: Flying pig
Vickers Wellington: Wimpey
CRJ = Tundra Jet
SAAB340=Slaab
B1 - Bone, Lancer. Best looking plane ever!!!
Lufthansa - Let us f*** the hostess, as no steward available.
F-16: Viper
C-172: Kansas City Spam Can, Wichita Flak
CRJ: Canada's Rejected Junk
A318: Short Bus
CRJ: Canada's Reset Jet
EMB-120: Switch B1tch, Jungle Junk
E-series: Jungle Bus
B1900 - Flying Forehead
Shorts 360- Irish Icemaker
E-120- Burrito Bomber
L1011 = Whisperliner
MD-80 = Minimum Delay 80 minutes.
Lockheed C-5 Galaxy - FRED (F'ing Ridiculous Expensive Disaster)
CRJ = climb restricted jet
BE-76 Duchess Beech - b***h Dutch-ass D–bag (not sure if i can use the whole word) Dutchy
WSBOD- Whistling S*** Box of death Wanna be king Squawked
American Eagles CRJ-700 renamed CRJ-180 - It leaves the gate and makes a 180 and comes back
c-130: four fan trash can
dc-9-30: The dirty thirty
737-100/200: Thunder Guppy
Piper Arrow: The scarerrow
C-172: Flying lunchbox, skyrat
C-182: Skylame
C-206: Stationary
Dash 8: Crash Eight
Bell 206: Jet Danger
Tu-144: Concordeski
MD-80: Mx Delay, Might Depart, Longbeach Sewer Tube
JS-41: Jetscream
DA-42: Twin engine sperm cell
CRJ200: Barbie Jet
ERJ-145 Jungle Jet
Be400 beechjet: also barbie jet
17-30A bellanca super viking: termite transporter
piper pa-31p-350 mojve: NOhaveee (as in no have any performance...engineers that worked on that project started that one)
PA-44 siminole: see-men-hole
cessna 208 carravan: carry-a-van
diamond D-jet: dumb jet
BE-18: Twin Beast
Beech/Volpar 18: Travesty-on-TriGear
BE-18T Westwind III: Whirlwind
BE-50 Twin Bonanza: T-Bone
BE-60 Duke: Puke, Ugly piece of S*!t
Bell UH-1 Iroquois: Huey
Boeing 727-200(early): Stretch '72, DogRocket
CE-337 SkyMaster: Die Faster
Curtiss JN-4D: Jenny
Ford AT-5: Tin Goose
IA-1123 Commodore Jet: Commode
IA-1124 Westwind: SkyPig
Junkers Ju-52: Tante Ju
Douglas C-124: Old Shakey
Douglas MD-95: Boeing 717
Embraer E-170,175,190,195: E-180 (back to the gate)
Hughes H-4 Hercules: Spruce Goose (Howard hated that nickname)
Piper PA 38: Toma-coffin
Piper PA 44: Swimmin' Hole
Republic F-105 Thunderchief: Thud
Tupolev Tu-154: 727-ski
C-152: one sh!tty two
DA20-c1 Eclipse: Plastic wagon
Beech Jet: Beech junk, blow job, piece of ****, "oh g*d d***** not another one... top the wings 200 in the trunk with prist?"
C-17 - officially Globemaster III, unofficially has these names:
- Moose (for it's bellowing moose call noise during ground refueling)
- Barney - FRED's (C-5) little buddy
- Budda - short and fat
T-34=Tormentor
KC-135A: Strato Pig
Cessna 172: Chickenhawk
P-47: Jug
Beech Duke: Also: Hangar queen, or allergic to sunlight (Begins breaking when the hangar door opens)
Piper Chieftan: Mega-ho
Eagle 150: Snub-nosed 'Skeeter
Piper Apache: Twin Cub
Dehavilland Mosquito: wooden wonder
Dehavilland DHC-7: Quadrasaurus rex
EMB-120: 'bro
PA-44: Slowminole, Feathering Arrow
:A10: Warthog
A318: Nanobus
A319: Microbus
A320: MiniBus, NintendoJet, ScareBus, Chainsaw, Deathjet, Freddie Kruegers wet dream, Toulouse Grasscutter, The Strimmer
(What's the difference between an A320 and a beaver? 4000 trees per hour.)
A320 is known as 'The John Wayne' Because they 'Chop down trees, move mountains and kill Indians!!'
A380: Double Decker Bus, Megabus
Alouette: Chicken chaser
AT6 Harvard: Halfard.
Avro Shackleton: Shacklecaster, 10,000 rivets in close formation, flying Cow, Old Grey Lady
Avro Vulcan: Tin triangle
AW62 Argosy: Whistling Wheelbarrow, Whistling Tit
BAC 111:Pocket rocket.
BAe146: Viscount 900, Smurfjet with 5 APU's, The Gas Chamber, Bumble-et, Baby Jumbo, Bring Another Engine, 1-4-Sick, submarine- low slow and out of sight, Airborne Auschwitz, Tonka Toy, 4 oil leaks connected by an electrical fault, The Quadra-Puff, Lead Sled, Mini Galaxy, Sky Dozer, Fisher Price 747, "1 aeroplane, 4 engines, needs 6", The Slug, Toxic Terror, Muffler (Because all the noise is on the inside), Fruit Bat, Flying cockroach.
BAe ATP: Advanced/Another Technical Problem, The Parrot (cos it's just a big Budgie), Ancient Technology Perpetuated, Bat Pee, Skoda, 80p, Wigwam (A TeePee).
BAe Harrier: Leaping Heap
BAe Jetstream: Junkstream, Wetdream, Soda-stream.
BAe Nimrod: Never Intended for Maritime Reconnaissance Or Development.
Bristol Beaufighter: Whispering Death
Beech 18: Flying snag
Beech 99: 99-Liner
Beech Baron: Ball tearer
Beech Bonanza: Doctor killer (its reputation as such is ubiquitous)
Beech 200: Super K
Beech 1900: Flipper, Dolphin, Stonefish
Beech T-34: Radial Interceptor
Bell 206: Deathranger, Hydraulic palmtree
Beverly: Flying Longhouse
Bristol 188: The Mayfly
Bristol Britannia: The Whispering Giant (Was this the original WG?), Freighter version: The Whispering Warehouse
Bristol Freighter: Freightener
B707: Slush bucket, Water wagon
B727: 3 holer, Tri-jet, Trisaurus, Triple crome-plated stovepipe
B737: Tin mouse, Maggot, Pocket Rocket Socket, FLUF (Fat Little Ugly F**cker), Light Twin, Baby Boeing, Fat Freddy, Guppy, Pig, Bobby (BOeing BaBY).
B747: Jumbo Jet, Whale, The Valiant, Upstairs and Downstairs, Lump.
B747SP: Short Plane, Stupid Purchase.
B757: Stick Insect, AtariFerrari, Slippery Snake
B767: Dumpster, Slug
B777: B737 on steroids, Cripple Seven (I.F.E. Problems??), Bigfoot
B24: The Crystal ****house
B52: BUMF (Big Ugly Mother f***er) or BUFF. (Big Ugly Fat F****er)
BN 2 Islander: 225 - 2 wings, 2 engines(?) 5 Wheels, Slander, Bongo
BN 2A Trislander: Try Harder, Bloody Nice Aircraft (!), Clockwork TriStar
CA-15 Winjeel: The Ginwheel
CAC Wirraway: The "Flying Chaff-cutter" (due to its clattering engine noise)
Canberra T17: Warthog (due to its warty nose)
Casa: Christ A Sh***y Aeroplane
Cessna 150: One Filthy, the buck and a half, Cesspit
Cessna A150 Aerobat: Aerosplat
Cessna 172 Cutlass: Strutless, Gutless
Cessna 177 Cardinal: The Pontif
Cessna 207: Crowdkiller, Slug, Moneymaker
Cessna 210 Centurian: Coffin
Cessna 337 Sky Master: Sky Maggot, Push-me-Pull-you, Mix Master, Bug Smasher, Push-me-Pull-me, Blow-me-Suck-me.
Cessna 402 Utiliner: Undyliner.
Cessna Citation: Levitation, Crustacean, Mutation, Slowtation, Nearjet, Bugjet
CF100: The Lead Sled
CT-4A: (which was painted bright yellow and green in Oz Air Farce service) - the Plastic Parrot
DC 3: Dakotasaurus Rex, Gooney Bird.
DC 6: Douglasaurus Rex
DC 7: Douglas Seven Seas (From DC-7C)
DC 8: DC Late, Old Smokey, Greasy8, Death Cruiser, Whiney Bird
DC 9: Greasy 9, Diesel 9, Pocket Rocket (series 10/15 only), DC3-GT
DC 10: Diesel 10, Death Cruiser 10, Crowd Killer
MD 11: More Death 2, I also like 'Scud' for the MD-11, once you launched it, you were not sure were it was going to land.
DH 82 Tiger Moth: Terror Moth.
DH Comet: Vomit
DHC 1 Chipmonk: Chippie, Chukmonk.
DHC 4 Caribou: The Gravel Truck ("The only aircraft known to man that could suffer a birdstrike from behind".)
DHC 6 Twin Otter: Tin Otter, Twin Rotter, Twotter, Stoneboat
DHC 8 Dash Eight: Dash Late
DO 328: Dork
DO 328J: Dorkjet
Douglas Maurader: Flying Prostitute
Douglas Skywarrior: 'All Three Dead' a mixture of its awful early safety record, three crew, and its US Navy designation of A-3D
EMB110 Bandierante: Bandit, Randy Banty
EMB120 Brasillia: Garbage Can, Brakillya
EMB145: Jungle Jet, Barbie Jet, The Windows 98 Plane (seems like you spend more time rebooting the aircraft than actually flying it), Bendy Jet, Emb180 (taxi to the runway, then 180 for taxi back to ramp)
F27: The Dutch Dog Whistle, Whistle Pig, The Converter - (ie, it converted fuel into noise). F50: F**kin' Fifty
F28: WhisperJet
Fokker 100: The Scud Because they point them at Europe and they don't come back!, Dutch Oven (lousy air conditioning)
FA 18: Bug, Rhino
Fairey Gannet: Converter of Kerosene to Noise
Fairey Swordfish: Stringbag
F-4 Grey Geese, "Luftwaffen-Diesel" (due to the noticeable smoke trails)
F-100 Hun
F-102 Deuce
F-104 Starfighter Flying coffin, Widowmaker, Manned missile
F-105 The Thud
F-111: Aardvark, The Pig
Fouga: Dog-whistle, Converter, Whistling Turtle
HS125: Pocket rocket
HS748: Paraffin Budgie, the Draggie, The Twenty Ton Dog Whistle.
HS Trident: Rodent, The Gripper
Gloster Javellin: Flying Trowel, Harmonious drag master, Flat Iron
Gloster Meteor: Meatbox
Gulfstream I: G-String, G-Once
Gulfstream IV: Fourskin
IAI Westwind: Lead Sled, Jew Canoe, Heebjet, Bagel Bomber, Yom Kippur Clipper
Jaguar: Septic Cat
Katana DA20: Flying sperm
Lake Amphibian: Doctor Killer
LearJet: FearJet, Noisemaker
L Jetstar: Lawn Dart
L1011 TriStar: Bistar (Had so many RB211-22B failures), El-10-Elemon, FrightStar, Tritanic, Swamp Eater, Swamp Buggy
C130 Hercules: Fat Albert, Trash hauler, Herkybird
MD 11: Mad Dog
MD 80: Mad Dog 80
MD 95: John Holmes condom
Metroliner: San-Antonio sewerpipe, Texas Sewer Pipe, Death pencil, The Screamin Weenie, Texas Lawn Dart, Swetro (in the summer), Baltimore Whore (no visible means of support, skinny lil 'ol wings), Terror Tube, "That noisy ******* thing", Widow maker, Kerosene Crowbar, Fear tube. Garretts on a Stick
Mohawk 298/Nord 262: Pteradactyl
MU-2: Widow Maker, Hiroshima Screamer, Rice Rocket, Kill You - 2
N24 Nomad: Go-mad, Gonad
Partenavia: Part-of-Mafia, Partial Aviator, Part Banana
PA-18 Tri Pacer: Pie Chaser
PA-23 Aztec: Az-Truck
PA-28 Arrow: Sparrow
PA-28 Cherokee: Cherry Tree
PA-28 Warrior: Worrier
PA-31 Navajo: Never-go, Have-a-go
PA-38 Tomahawk: Traumahawk, Terrahawk, SpinMaster, Rat**** Hatchet
PA-44 Seminole: Semenhole
PA-60: ScareOstar.
PC12: Platypus.
PBY 5 Catalina: Pigboat, Dumbo.
RJ70/100: Real Jet
SAAB 35 Draken: Flying Trowel
SAAB J29: Flying Barrel
S3 Viking: Hoover
Shorts Belfast: Belslug
Shorts Sandringham: The Triple Decker Bus
Shorts Skyvan: The Whispering Nissan Hut
Shorts 330: The Two Tailed Shed, Horse Float, Milk Carton, Winnebago, Box Car, Short Van
Shorts 360: Box, Shoe Box, Barn, Shed, Long Short, The box that the Skyvan came in.
Sikorsky S61N: "Miss Piggy", (fat and ugly)
Strikemaster: Constant speed - variable noise machine.
Supermarine Stranraer: Whistling ****house
Supermarine Walrus: Shagbat
T-33: T Bird
T-37: Tweet
TB-10 Tobago: Toboggan - because they only perform downhill!
Tornado: Tonka
TSR-2: Throw Some Rocks Two, Teararse
VC-9 Vanguard: Vickers Vibrator
VC-9 Vanguard Merchantman: The Guards Van
VC-10: Iron Duck, Vickers Knickers
Vickers Varsity: Flying pig
Vickers Wellington: Wimpey
CRJ = Tundra Jet
SAAB340=Slaab
B1 - Bone, Lancer. Best looking plane ever!!!
Lufthansa - Let us f*** the hostess, as no steward available.
F-16: Viper
C-172: Kansas City Spam Can, Wichita Flak
CRJ: Canada's Rejected Junk
A318: Short Bus
CRJ: Canada's Reset Jet
EMB-120: Switch B1tch, Jungle Junk
E-series: Jungle Bus
B1900 - Flying Forehead
Shorts 360- Irish Icemaker
E-120- Burrito Bomber
L1011 = Whisperliner
MD-80 = Minimum Delay 80 minutes.
Lockheed C-5 Galaxy - FRED (F'ing Ridiculous Expensive Disaster)
CRJ = climb restricted jet
BE-76 Duchess Beech - b***h Dutch-ass D–bag (not sure if i can use the whole word) Dutchy
WSBOD- Whistling S*** Box of death Wanna be king Squawked
American Eagles CRJ-700 renamed CRJ-180 - It leaves the gate and makes a 180 and comes back
c-130: four fan trash can
dc-9-30: The dirty thirty
737-100/200: Thunder Guppy
Piper Arrow: The scarerrow
C-172: Flying lunchbox, skyrat
C-182: Skylame
C-206: Stationary
Dash 8: Crash Eight
Bell 206: Jet Danger
Tu-144: Concordeski
MD-80: Mx Delay, Might Depart, Longbeach Sewer Tube
JS-41: Jetscream
DA-42: Twin engine sperm cell
CRJ200: Barbie Jet
ERJ-145 Jungle Jet
Be400 beechjet: also barbie jet
17-30A bellanca super viking: termite transporter
piper pa-31p-350 mojve: NOhaveee (as in no have any performance...engineers that worked on that project started that one)
PA-44 siminole: see-men-hole
cessna 208 carravan: carry-a-van
diamond D-jet: dumb jet
BE-18: Twin Beast
Beech/Volpar 18: Travesty-on-TriGear
BE-18T Westwind III: Whirlwind
BE-50 Twin Bonanza: T-Bone
BE-60 Duke: Puke, Ugly piece of S*!t
Bell UH-1 Iroquois: Huey
Boeing 727-200(early): Stretch '72, DogRocket
CE-337 SkyMaster: Die Faster
Curtiss JN-4D: Jenny
Ford AT-5: Tin Goose
IA-1123 Commodore Jet: Commode
IA-1124 Westwind: SkyPig
Junkers Ju-52: Tante Ju
Douglas C-124: Old Shakey
Douglas MD-95: Boeing 717
Embraer E-170,175,190,195: E-180 (back to the gate)
Hughes H-4 Hercules: Spruce Goose (Howard hated that nickname)
Piper PA 38: Toma-coffin
Piper PA 44: Swimmin' Hole
Republic F-105 Thunderchief: Thud
Tupolev Tu-154: 727-ski
C-152: one sh!tty two
DA20-c1 Eclipse: Plastic wagon
Beech Jet: Beech junk, blow job, piece of ****, "oh g*d d***** not another one... top the wings 200 in the trunk with prist?"
C-17 - officially Globemaster III, unofficially has these names:
- Moose (for it's bellowing moose call noise during ground refueling)
- Barney - FRED's (C-5) little buddy
- Budda - short and fat
T-34=Tormentor
KC-135A: Strato Pig
Cessna 172: Chickenhawk
P-47: Jug
Beech Duke: Also: Hangar queen, or allergic to sunlight (Begins breaking when the hangar door opens)
Piper Chieftan: Mega-ho
Eagle 150: Snub-nosed 'Skeeter
Piper Apache: Twin Cub
Dehavilland Mosquito: wooden wonder
Dehavilland DHC-7: Quadrasaurus rex
EMB-120: 'bro
PA-44: Slowminole, Feathering Arrow
CAVU/OK--ceiling and visibility unlimited/ OK-----Greaser- a smooth landing---Tallyho!-traffic in sight---'---No joy'-negative traffic-------'hot and high' [high density altitudes]-hot tires and brakes ------ arrival---FO's hard landing---- 'A little Gusty'--Captain's hard landing----
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------ arrival---FO's hard landing---- 'A little Gusty'--Captain's hard landing----PA
