Airliner Nicknames

Hi,

Great pic there Ren Frew, nice scenery to match too :cool:.

Nationwide Air

Hi,

Duesseldwarf , oh that meaning of “Pocket Rocket”. 😉

Thanks
Nationwide Air

Here’s a “Super Budgie” going… .ahem…. tech, yesterday at GLA ! The Loganair pilot I was chatting with described the A319 as “The electric powered tiny jet”

Stick some new engines and a “go faster” tail on the Avro 748 of 1959, and then call it “Advanced” – deserves all the stick it gets.

will people please stop slaughtering the ATP – i’m gonna have to work with those things soon!!!

Nationwide Air – you misunderstand me – I am not disputing the nickname of the BAC1-11. I was just being a wee bit childish and having a laugh at the other meaning of ‘pocket rocket’ – please don’t be offended…..

Hi,

Duesseldwarf, it was known as the “Pocket Rocket”. Take a look at this BAC-1-11 website. http://home.clara.net/gab/home.html

Pocket Rocket? – that’s something else much less avionic to me!!

At Gill Airways, you’d often hear the Short 360 being reffered to as “That F*cking Thing!” by the passengers, as a sign of their disappointment of flying on the Flying Coffin/Flying Caravan/Flying Wardrobe/Flying Shoebox etc etc etc. The letters of complaint about the Shorts aircraft often kept me amused!

Dunno if this is a industry wide thingy or not either, but I’ve heard of the DC10 at Monarch being called the Death Cruiser

Hi,

BAC-1-11 – Pocket Rocket!

Nationwide Air

Not forgetting Crossair’s naming policy…

146 Jumbolino
Saab 2000 Concordino

and there was talk of the Embraer 170/190’s being called Sambolinos… :rolleyes: (I *think* this idea was ditched when Swiss was formed, though)

BEA used to call their Dakotas (DC-3’s) Pionairs.

Concorde: SSC (supersonic cruiser)
747: jumbo
737: pig
777: Tripleseven, triple, tresette.
MD80: mad dog
DC3: dakota

Some that I’ve heard around the airport:

CRJ – Skidoo (a reference to their Bombardier heritage and their shallow climb outs)
Jetstream – Lawndart
Metroliner – San Antonio Sewer Pipe
PC-12 – Pilatypus (a reference to their PT-6 engines resembling the duck bill of a platypus)
Twin Otter – Tw’otter

I don’t know if the 737 was ever called Fat Albert, but the Boeing 747 was. It seems that the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy also has that nickname.

A380 – Double Decker Long Hauliday bus!

Tu154-hoover (thats the sound on start up)
Il62-tube
ATP-sh**box(unique to Farnborough,after 4 years of seeing G-CORP every day)
737- pig
747-lump
sh*t slinger-727
smokey joe-Trident

on the lighter side
Cesspit-ant Cessna
Jet Banger-Jet Ranger
Mr McGoo-Renegade Spirit microlight after the first one locally was G-MGOO

ERJ: Jungle Jets

Originally posted by CompassCall
Thanks for the welcome and all the ‘names. Perhaps the A318 will be the Microbus?

A318: Microbus
A319: Minibus
A320: Baby Bus
A321: Junior Bus

A330: Hauliday bus ?
A340: Long hauliday bus ? 😀

i read somewhere that the 737-200 was nicknamed ‘Fat Albert’, because its wingspan is almost exactly the same as it fuselage length, and makes it look chubby. am i right?

thanks,
adam

727: Three holer
DC10: Flying coffin