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Did you know that many planes have nicknames or nicknames? Here we review the best known and some of their particular origins.
Queen of the Skies, pig, machaca, ballena, names of cities or personalities are some of the nicknames or nicknames that various planes have throughout the planet, did you ever notice?
Here we review some of these nicknames and possible origins.
Nicknames
some because of their shape, others due to the trail of contamination left when taking off, for love or for memories from the second world war, many planes have nicknames that have stuck for life and even the aircraft model no one uses it. For instance:
- Boeing 747 – "the queen of heaven"
- Boeing 737-200 – «chancho» or «tinmouse»
- Boeing 777- «T7»
- MD-80 – «Maddog»
- Pilate PC-6 – «Machaca»
- Airbus A380 – "Super Jumbo" or "whale"
- Airbus A350 – "raccoon"
- B-52 – «Buff»
- C-46, CV-340, DC-6, CV440, in Bolivia in the years 90 They called them "the butchers of the air"
- F-104 Starfighter – "the widow maker"
- B-36 Peacemaker – "6 shift", 4 burnin'” because I had 6 piston engines and 4 turbojets.
- Republic A-10 – «HOG»
- Beechcraft 1900 – "dolphin"
- Vought F-4 – Corsair "whistling death" because of the sound it made in a dive.
- U-2 – «Dragon Lady»
- Hercules C-130 – "the pig"
- Piasecki H-1 – "flying banana"
- IAI Arava – «hue vito»
- Lockheed P-38 Lightning, The Japanese called him "Fork Tailed Devil"
- Junkers JU-52 – "Aunt You" (tia Ju).
- Beech Bonanza V35 – «doctor killer»
- Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane – "dragon-fly"
- Ekranoplano 903 Lun – "The Caspian Sea Monster"
- Polikarpov I-16 in the Spanish civil war was called "rat" or "fly"
- Curtiss C-46 – «The Hump»
An interesting fact about World War II and the Cold War, The United States used codes in English for aircraft identification, fighters were named after men and bombers were named after women.
During the cold war, fighters were given names or nicknames with F and freighters names with C to facilitate identification, for example:
- They called the Mitsubishi G3 bomber "Betty",
- al Mig21 «Fishbed»,
- al Antonov AN-22 «Cock».
And these remained as NATO identification codes.
Names
Another peculiarity of aviation, is that some planes, to more of their nicknames they have names that are usually present on the nose of airplanes.
These names are implemented by some airlines for some of these commercial reasons to promote or remind:
- Cities where they operate.
- Outstanding personalities of culture, history or sport.
- Sights.
Do you know the nickname of any other plane? Leave it in the comments to add it to the list.
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who do they call that?
I remember the old 732 of Argentine Airlines, "El Mufa"
That got rid of one and fell into another
Hahahaha that's a bad nickname, poor plane
In Peru at, Boeing 757 they were called : "the skinny one", the 737, like the post, "the pig", I always knew that nickname was from the 767…
I never saw a nickname for them 767, good question.
The PanAm called them "Clippers" and used old sailboat names from the 1800, whose ships were the fastest of their time. ATC used "Clipper" (#flight number) in your communications
Good information, and as I remember Clipper was the radio called the airline.
It also consists of a 757, the EC-HAA with the name "Ecuador".
I already saw it and how beautiful, I wish they would put it back on an A350.
In addition to the “Virgen del Quinche” from Plusultra, KLM christened a 747 as "City of Guayaquil" and a 777 like "Galapagos". Some other foreign company with Ecuadorian names on their planes?
It seems to me that Iberia, but it's a good question!
That's how it is! The Iberia website contains the EC-LEU and the EC-LHM, both A340 with the names “Rio Amazonas” and “Galapagos-Ecuador” respectively.
It also consists of a 757, the EC-HAA with the name "Ecuador".
That is the sad reality for those beautifully imposing trimotors., seeing the other side of the coin AAL, when operating with the DC-10, I called them "luxury liner"
Unfortunately their accidents condemned them.
I also remember that they called the DC-10 "death cruiser" and the MD-11 "flying coffins."
oh what ugly nicknames.
I remember that Aerogal had a boeing 767, They called him "El Piquero". That plane covered the GYE-JFK-GYE route (I don't know if I covered other routes). I had the good fortune to travel on it a couple of times when I was still in high school..
It's true, the pikeman was the 767, although I think that sometimes he did fly to Quito.
Another example is the Russian Tupolev Tu-160 bomber codenamed "BLACKJACK" and the Russian Cold War space shuttle "Buran." (blizzard or snowstorm)
excellent examples, Thank you!
After all the nicknames JetBlue gives its A320s, PlusUltra's A340-600 “Virgen del Quinche” is coming
REG: EC-NFQ
It is true that Plus baptized its first A346 like this.