Nicknames?

[FastFlyBy]

The Metro - West Texas Death Pencil

[lucky37]

Norseman = "Thunderchicken"; it can't fly very well but sure makes a lot of noise

[cgzro]

Ok so its not a plane but it fits with the theme of the thread.

"Take us to Misrabel" said one of my instructors many years ago .. of course referring to a cross country from Rockliffe airport to Mirabel

I still remember being cleared to land about 40 miles out .. so deserted was the airport.

[cgzro]

Oh and why hasn't anybody mentioned the usual deliberate mis pronouncations for "Focker"

[Meatservo]

The Metro - West Texas Death Pencil

I've heard it called a "flaming death tube" too. Pretty funny.

[Meecka]

I've heard a metro called a 'San antonio sewer pipe"
"Texas lawn dart"
"Screaming shit tube of death" and the names go on....

[Rowdy]

screaming pencil of death,

tube

turbo dildo..

oh the metro.

I've heard the bushawk get called a bushwhacker.

cant forget the dollar eighty, buck and a half (150) and the forktailed devil (337)

[lucky37]

It's FOKKER.

Metro = "Texas Tampon"

[Siddley Hawker]

The Supermarine Stranraer - aka the Strainer - had a relief tube at the back instead of a toilet. Before use one opened a valve so the fluid and the frammis would be sucked out into the slipstream, but opening the valve also created a loud whistle, hence the other nickname for the Stranraer, the whistling shithouse. That's from Jim Spillsbury's book on QCA.

[Rowdy]

Dont forget the stranraer also produced a resonance from all the flying wires which itself led to the whistle.

[KT111]

D228 - "fuckin dornier" (really great when CFUCN was flying in). 'Here comes that FUCN dornier"
ATR42 - Hater
Twin Otter - "Oh hey Ted" or, "It's that scottish guy again"
Joyously coined one morning on a trip out east "Going to Sunny D" (place not an aircraft)
A748 Hawker - Oviously the mispronounciation stands but once in a while "Jeezus that thing smells" has been heard spoken out loud when it fires up or taxi's by.

[Meecka]

Beech 18....

"Bugsmasher"
"Beech exploder"
"Witchita Wobler"
"Twin Harvard"

[Dr. Mcillicuddy]

beech 18 Double breasted witcha wonder. Actually a very nice aircraft

[VintageSky]

Whats a twin pin and whats a twin pig?

[bmc]

Whats a twin pin and whats a twin pig?

Twin pin is the Scottish Aviation Tin Pioneer.

Don't know about the twin pig. Might be an AC biscuit shooter.