Military planes often have real names as well as numbers such as Tornado, Hercules, Typhoon etc. Most modern airliners tend to be known by their numbers A330, B757, Tu144 etc.
What names do you think would be appropriate for your favourite number named airliners ?
I think the A330/A340’s should have a name that reflects their mighty wing span. Something like the Airbus Eagle or maybe the B777 ER would sound better as the Boeing Explorer or something like that.
What do you think folks ? let’s have some suggestions
By: EGNM - 15th May 2003 at 18:29
i like a few of them Whiskey Delta!
By: Whiskey Delta - 15th May 2003 at 15:47
I know this isn’t inline with the initial intent of this thread but here are the names given aircraft by pilots and sometimes the controllers in the US. Are any of these nicknames found across the pond?
727 = Jurassic Jet
737 = Guppy
EMB-135/140/145 = Jungle Jet, Barbie Jet, Pencil Jet
Beech 1900 = “The Mighty Beech” or a Twin Beech if you really want to tee off the pilots 😉
EMB-120 = The Bra-Killa’ or Brasildo
ATR-42/72 = Pig (it has a flat front and a pointy tail or the 42-320 because of it’s ability to plug up the flow of traffic with it’s awful climb/cruise/decent performance. The controller love them. 😉 )
Avro/BAe-146 = BAC Jet
MD-80 = Mad Dog
Metroliner = Death Tube
Saab 340 = Slob
Fokker 70 = Baby Fokker
Fokker 100 = Mother Fokker
DC9 = Diesel 9
Jetstream 31 = Junkstream
Dornier 328Jet = DoJet or Doh’ Jet (for the Simpsons fans)
non-airliner:
Cessna Citations = Slowtations (with the X being the exception)
Learjet = Near Jet
By: Ren Frew - 15th May 2003 at 14:17
How about the Bae “Edward Scissorhands” ?
By: Ren Frew - 7th May 2003 at 00:34
Shorts 330 = “Flying Transit Van”
By: greekdude1 - 6th May 2003 at 20:19
I thought the Fairchild Metroliner III was the flying pencil?
By: mongu - 6th May 2003 at 19:16
Shorts 360 – “Flying Coffin”
By: andrewm - 6th May 2003 at 17:07
Shorts 360 = Shed with Wings
By: Gaurav - 6th May 2003 at 16:41
Originally posted by skycruiser
747 “the duck”
A340 “slowbus”
lol
By: skycruiser - 6th May 2003 at 16:13
747 “the duck”
A340 “slowbus”
By: LBARULES - 6th May 2003 at 15:58
757-pencil
767-fat pencil
777-extremely fat pencil
By: EGNM - 6th May 2003 at 14:15
nah – fat albert goes to the legendary C-130 Hercules
By: mongu - 6th May 2003 at 00:29
Or Fat Albert for a 737?
By: wysiwyg - 5th May 2003 at 21:26
…or Boeing drainpipe!
By: Ren Frew - 5th May 2003 at 21:09
Ha ha, How about the Boeing Javelin for the 757-300 ?
By: wysiwyg - 5th May 2003 at 21:06
I think the 146 should now be referred to as the Fisher Price Starlifter!
By: Bhoy - 5th May 2003 at 16:44
it Could be worse, when they ordered the Embraers, their was talk of them being dubbed ‘Sambalinos’…
By: yagoceron - 5th May 2003 at 09:05
Yes, Crossair called the Avro Jumbolino and the Saab Concordino.
Sounds a bit daft if you ask me.
Yago
By: steve rowell - 5th May 2003 at 06:17
airliner names
i think the B717 should be called orphan annie
By: mongu - 2nd May 2003 at 00:07
Big Top – now there’s an unfortunate name! I bet they got “you lot are clowns” comments all the time!
The aircraft I usually travel on (“benefit” of a small community!) is called Jemima. She is a BAe 146-200 built in 1987 and registered in 1993 as G-MIMA, hence the popular nickname. She’s very uncomfortable and at 16 years old must be on the way out, but I feel a sense of attachment due to all those flights on her.
By: greekdude1 - 1st May 2003 at 23:23
And SIA’s 743’s were known as “BigTop,” hence the logical progression to “Megatop” on the series 400’s.
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