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Re: Funniest Aircraft name

Posted by Dick Phillips on Sat Nov 29, 2003 11:45:57 PM

In reply top Re: Funniest Aircraft name posted by Jim Church on Sat Nov 29, 2003 11:07:35 AM

: Others to consider:
:
: Douglas F-4D = FORD
: Douglas R4D = 'Ready For Duty'
: Douglas DC seies = 'Dizzy-3,' 'Dizzy-4,' etc.
: Cessna UC-78 = 'useless-78'
: Kawanishi Ki-44 = 'Tojo' (very non-P.C. ... I like it!)
: Fairy Swordfish = 'Stringbag'
: F-105 Thundechief = 'Lead Sled,' 'Lead Zepplin,' 'Polish G
: lider' (too many to list them all)
: F4U Corsair series = 'Hose Nose,''Bent Wing Bird'
: F-104 Starfighter = 'The Missle With a Man in it'
: A-7 Corsair = 'SLUFF' (Short Little Ugly Fat F---er)
: MiG-29 = 'Fighting Fulcrum'
: N.A. F-100 Super Sabre = 'Hun' for 'hundred
:
: Little known fact, but for a short time in the '70s, Elmer
: Ward's P-51 (now 'Man 'O War') was named 'Poon-tang.'
:
: Lots more I'm sure, but these come to mind off the top of
: my head.
: Jim
:
: FROM DICK PHILLIPS
As part of the book I am writing on civil mustangs, I have a chapter on names applied to civil operated P-51s.
I'll post some of the more strange ones here.

AULD DOG BEARCATS ARE GATOR BAIT
BUMBLE BOOGIE DADDY'S LITTLE FATTY
DOUBLEKNIT AND DOON ESTER'S MINK
ILLEGIMATUS NON CARBORUNDUM JOCK'S STRAP
JACK ADAAMS TWINKELTOWN SPECIAL OOGAHONK SPECIAL
TABASCO - HOT STUFF THE BOISE BITCH

Bye the way, I've been calling them "stangs" for years.



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