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Re: Funniest Aircraft name
Posted by Dick Phillips on Sat Nov 29, 2003 11:48:49 PM
In reply top Re: Funniest Aircraft name posted by Dick Phillips on Sat Nov 29, 2003 11:45:57 PM
: : Others to consider:
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: : 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
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: : 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
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: : Little known fact, but for a short time in the '70s, Elm
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: : Ward's P-51 (now 'Man 'O War') was named 'Poon-tang.'
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: : Lots more I'm sure, but these come to mind off the top o
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: : my head.
: : Jim
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: : 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.
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: 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
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: Bye the way, I've been calling them "stangs" for years.
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