The F-111 oddly named the Aardvark is often called the Pig by crews I think.
On that theme I think the EF-111 Raven was nicknamed the Spark Vark.
The SR-71 Blackbird was called the Habu (type of snake common or native in the region where they were usually based) by crews.
Lagg-3 was usually called something in Russian corresponding to it's designation roughly translated as varnished flying coffin.
Another for the Lagg 3 and/or possibly the later La 5s (or maybe even an unrelated aircraft) was nicknamed 'the flying grand piano' or something like that, another reference to the wood based construction.
Il-2 Sturmovik had a few including Iron dog and Gorbatyi (meaning Hunchback)
German WW2 fighters usually got named with the designation, Fw190A = Anton, Fw190D = Dora, 109E = Emil, 109F = Frederick, 109G = Gustav etc
I think this is after the german phoenetic alphabet?
DC-3/C-47 Skytrain = Gooney Bird, Vomit comet
That Blomn and Voss flying boat was nicknamed the Flying Clog (looked like a shoe)
AD1 Skyraider = Able Dog
A3D Skywarrior = All Three Dead
Most very large aircraft like B-36 or C-5 = Aluminium Overcast
Many large transport aircraft like C-130 or C-5 are sometimes called Fat Albert
Many stripped out and lightened fighters in WW2 like the L model of the P-40 were called Gypsy Rose Lee after a famous stripper of the time.
Do17 - Flying Pencil
U2 - Dragon Lady
B-26 Marauder - Baltimore Whore or flying prostitute (no visible means of support, ie short wings) also Windowmaker
P-47 - Jug
F-117 - Bat Plane, wobblin goblin
B1B - Bone (B One, geddit?)
Double Ugly - EA-6B (twice as ugly as the A6), sometimes F-4 Phantom is called this
B-29 - Dreamboat
Ju-88 - Dreifinger (german for three fingers, due to appearence with fuselage and engines)
F4U - Ensign Eliminator, due to torque roll, poor vision and large prop
Handley Page Hampden - Flying Suitcase
A7 Corsair - man eater, after the large intake, or more commonly SLUFF similar to the BUFF but with the Sl meaning Short little, instead of Big.
Sikorsky R-4 - Frustrated Palm Tree (I love that one
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AC-47 gunship - Puff the magic dragon, or spooky
Vickers Wellington - Wimpy, after a cartoon character of the time
F-84F - Ground loving whore (I think this might be due to needing a lot of maintainence rather than crashing a lot, but I'm just guessing on this one)
F-4 Phantom - Old smokey (J79 was quite smokey), also Rhino amongst others
B-239 (Buffalo) - called the Pylly Walteri in Finland, meaning bustling walter, i ahve no idea why, crazy Fins... in the west it was also called the flying barrell or beer barrell
Gloster Meteor - meat box
F-86K - In Dutch service nicknames the Kaasjager which means, cheese fighter, apparently the letter K is associated with cheese in Dutch or something like that.
F-18 - Plastic bug (due to composite construction being fairly new at the time)
Lysander - Lizze
Avia S-199 - Mule (due to difficult flying characteristics)
Supermarine Walrus - shagbat (another brilliant one)
Yak 3U - Ubiytsa from the U designation, meaning Killer
Sea harrier - SHar (shortening of Sea Harrier obviously), harriers have also been called Scarrier after they crashed a lot in the US
CH-47 Chinook - **** hook.
Curtiss SB2C Helldiver - Son of a ***** 2nd Class
P-51 - spam can (due to it falling apart when pilots over stressed the airframe
C-141 - Star lizard, or mountain magnet
F-15 - Tennis Court (due to large upper surface area and large radar cross section)
F-105 - Thud (already explained) and also triple threat (it could bomb you, shoot you or fall on you)
F-14 - Turkey, also Bombcat in the later versions when they fitted bombs
Vought SB2U Vindicator - Vibrator, wind indicator
Found some more here for military aircraft
http://www.coastcomp.com/av/fltline2/nickname.htm
and some for civilian aircraft
http://www.chris.brady.ukgateway.net...tnicknames.htm
I seriously can't recall any contract since the late 60s at least that didn't go over. And with the F-22 cost at $339-361 million per plane at this point figuring 183 planes The F-35 should escalate too. although there is a planned build of 2,500 so as cost per unit will be like $60 million per copy when can you remember a contract that wasn't cut? Probably the last one was the F-86!
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