¿Sabíso many planes have nicknames or nicknames? Hereí we review the más known and some of his particular orígenes.
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?
Hereí We review some of these nicknames and possible orígenes.
Nicknames
some because of their shape, others due to the trail of contaminationóWhat they left behind when taking off, por searchñor 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 the skies”
- Boeing 737-200 – “pig” O “tinmouse”
- Boeing 777- “T7”
- MD-80 – “Maddog”
- Pilate PC-6 – “Machaca”
- Airbus A380 – “Super Jumbo” O “ballena”
- Airbus A350 – “raccoon”
- B-52 – “Buff”
- C-46, CV-340, DC-6, CV440, in Bolivia in theños 90 the tenían “the butchers of the air”
- F-104 Starfighter – “the widow maker”
- B-36 Peacemaker – “6 turnin’, 4 burnin'” because I had 6 piston engines and 4 turbojets.
- Republic A-10 – “HOG”
- Beechcraft 1900 – “delfín”
- Vought F-4 – Corsair “whistling death” by the sound that it made in a dive.
- U-2 – “Dragon Lady”
- Hercules C-130 – “the pork”
- Piasecki H-1 – “flying banana”
- IAI Arava – “little egg”
- Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the Japanese told himían “Fork Tailed Devil”
- Junkers JU-52 – “Tante Ju” (tia Ju).
- Beech Bonanza V35 – “doctor killer”
- Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane – “libélula”
- Ekranoplano 903 Lun – “The Caspian Sea Monster”
- Polikarpov I-16 in the Spanish Civil Warñlive the decían “flat” O “fly”
- Curtiss C-46 – “The Hump”
An interesting fact about the Second World War and the French Waría, The United States used cósay in english for identificationónumber of aircraft, fighters were named after men and bombers were named after women.
During the war fríI put the fightersínames or nicknames with F and freighters names with C to facilitate identification.ón for example:
- Al bombardero Mitsubishi G3 le decían “Betty”,
- al Mig21 “Fishbed”,
- al Antonov AN-22 “Cock”.
And these were like cóidentification signsón of NATO.
Names
Another peculiarity of aviationón, is that some planes, a más of their nicknames have names that are usually found present on the nose of airplanes.
These names are implemented by some Aerolíreasons for some of these commercial reasons to promote or remember:
- Cities where they operate.
- Outstanding personalities of culture, history or sport.
- Tour attractionsístatic.
¿Do you know someone's nickname?ún another avión? DéI hit the comments to add it to the list..
IBM Lenovo
who do they call that?
I remember the old 732 of Argentine Airlines, “The 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 girl”, the 737, like the post, “the pork”, 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 ancient sailing names of 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 of “Ecuador”.
I already saw it and how beautiful, I wish they would put it back on an A350.
Besides of “Virgin of Quinche” of Plusultra, KLM christened a 747 What “City of Guayaquil” and even 777 What “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 “Amazon river” and “Galapagos-Ecuador” respectively.
It also consists of a 757, the EC-HAA with the name of “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, called them “luxury liner”
Unfortunately their accidents condemned them.
I also remember that the DC-10s were told “death cruise” and the MD-11 “flying coffins”
oh what ugly nicknames.
I remember that Aerogal had a boeing 767, they told him “the pikeman”. 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 as code “BLACKJACK” and the cold war russian space shuttle “Buran” (blizzard or snowstorm)
excellent examples, Thank you!
After all the nicknames JetBlue gives its A320s, comes the PlusUltra A340-600 “Virgin of Quinche”
REG: EC-NFQ
It is true that Plus baptized its first A346 like this.