Airplane Nicknames

[Welcome_Aboard]

We all have our favorite airplanes to work (another thread). Do you, or your airline, have nicknames for different aircraft?

F-100 = The Little Dutch Oven
and…..
F-100 = LMF...Little Motor Fokker

MD80 = Lawn Dart

757 = The Homesick Angel (rate of climb)

767ER = The Flying Gas-can

MD11 = MD-Lemon

777 = Triple Nipple

A320s = Boomerangs…They leave the gate, but they keep coming back

L-1011 = TriTanic


Anyone remember Braniff Airlines and the wild colors they painted their airplanes?……

Braniff's orange 747 = The Great Pumpkin

Braniff's green 747 = Super Pickle

[Belg1972]

hmm ... I know that one of the oldest aircraft in my airline has the final registration letters VJO and that a lot of crew call it la 'Vieille CHiOtte'. (The old toilet).

Have a look at Virgin Atlantic 's registrations : G-OUZO for their old A320 to Greece, ...

[galleydancer]

I'm surprised it's not already here! This is an old one.

Boeing 727: Three-holer

[redhandle]

One of our aircraft has a registration ending with -AHP. I guess it must be the most unpopular plane here and it's generally known as the Aap (dutch for monkey).

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[suthernbelle]

DC9-10 - Trash 10
A320 - Scarebus
Saab 340 Turbo prop - Weedwacker
727 - Three holer
DC10-30 and -40 - Trash 30 and Trash 40

[Violette]

737-100= "The Nasty" (er...hope I got the configuration right. It is the "N". Is it 100 or 200? Where's my manual? haha)
A320="Scarebus"
and we have (OR maybe it's gone now) One Lower-lobe galley DC10 that we call "Christine" (from the Stephen King book)
*note- we STILL have OTHER DC10s but rumor IS (and has been) that we are getting rid of them.
When I went thru training, my instructor told me to remember the type of one of our 37s (from outer appearence) By calling it "long-dong-silver". (Silver engine.)
This is from a UAL FA. see ya!

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[Franco757]

Hey redhandle...I thought the AHP (a leased 757-200 for the outsiders) was known as Always Having Problems!!

[redhandle]

Yep! A Hallmark Pain...
Though I worked on it with just one lady passenger and her baby. Since I was the only male F/A the others made me ask the Cpt (who, it's well known, fancies boys) to improvise a crew smoking section in the aft cabin. I threw in all my charms and guess what, it worked! Lord, I hope he's not reading this, lest I fly with him again!

[Bitchpurser]

When we had the exBCal DC10's at BA they were known as the Death Cruisers because after LGW-LAX & later on LGW-PHX sectors you did feel like death.

Our long haul 767s are also known as Skoda jets as they take as long as those nasty little Czech cars of the same name to cross the pond....why do JFK-LGW in 7hrs when a 747, 777 or DC10 can do it in 5h45??? Beats me....

In a previous life I also worked on the Shed a.k.a. the Shorts 360 a dream to work on in turbulence...often spent 2h30 strapped in all the way on a sector that would take half the time on the way back due to the tailwind....not forgetting the sensibly located hot water boiler dripping scalding water down your neck when on the j/seat....ahhhh memories!

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[Boeinguy]

Here's the one's I've heard:

Metroliner-Lawn Dart
MD80-Mad Dog
727-Jurasic Jet
Airbus-Scarebus

[BWIFlyBoi]

At AA we fly MD Stupid80s, the Barbie Dream Jet (our new 56 seat F100's - complete with the Ballroom, the space between the exit row and the next row of seats, which could hold about 20 people standing), and the Slave Ship (757)

[flydCoop]

The MD-11 is known as "minimum delay
11 hours" or "mechanical delay 11 hours.
Miami aircraft maintenance also refers
to it as the "skud" because they never
know where it is going to land.

[Future_Flight_Attendant]

757: Lady long legs, slim body and two big ones http://www.crewstart.com/ubb/images/icons/wink.gif

777: Bigfoot

737: Guppy

Airbusses: Scarebusses

[flyboydc]

Okay, these are a bit morbid, but...

DC-10 = DC stands for Death Cruiser

L-1011 TriStar = Death Star

And this between my "girlfriend" and I:

747-400 - the Glamour Jet

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[BWIFlyBoi]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Verdana ">quote:<HR>Originally posted by flyboydc:
Okay, these are a bit morbid, but...

DC-10 = DC stands for Death Cruiser

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You laugh, but at AA, they named all of the DC-10s...one of them was named "Old Smokey"

[Muscleboi]

In the late 80's, AA leased some former Delta DC10's, which Delta had acquired in the Western merger. Since we were only going to have them for a short time, AA chose not to strip them down to the bare metal, and instead, left them in a white scheme with full AA striping and logo.

Aside from the major problems we had with these aircraft (no centerline overhead bins, not enough oven space), they served us well for a few months, and were worked hard.

We used to call them the "White Whales".