The nicknames, Nicknames and names that the planes carry

¿Sabíso many planes have nicknames or nicknames? Hereí we review the más known and some of his particular orígenes.

Queen of the Skies, pig, machaca, ballena, names of cities or personalities are some of the nicknames or nicknames that various planes have throughout the planet, ¿did you ever notice?

Hereí We review some of these nicknames and possible orígenes.

Nicknames

some because of their shape, others due to the trail of contaminationóWhat they left behind when taking off, por searchñor or for memories from the second world war, many planes have nicknames that have stuck for life and even the aircraft model no one uses it. For instance:

• Boeing 747 – «the queen of the skies»
• Boeing 737-200 – «pig» O «tinmouse»
• Boeing 777- «T7»
• MD-80 – «Maddog»
• Pilate PC-6 – «Machaca»
• Airbus A380 – «Super Jumbo» O «ballena»
• Airbus A350 – «raccoon»
• B-52 – «Buff»
• C-46, CV-340, DC-6, CV440, in Bolivia in theños 90 the tenían «the butchers of the air»
• F-104 Starfighter – «the widow maker»
• B-36 Peacemaker – «6 turnin’, 4 burnin'» because I had 6 piston engines and 4 turbojets.
• Republic A-10 – «HOG»
• Beechcraft 1900 – «delfín»
• Vought F-4 – Corsair «whistling death» by the sound that it made in a dive.
• U-2 – «Dragon Lady»
• Hercules C-130 – «the pork»
• Piasecki H-1 – «flying banana»
• IAI Arava – «little egg»
• Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the Japanese told himían «Fork Tailed Devil»
• Junkers JU-52 – «Tante Ju» (tia Ju).
• Beech Bonanza V35 – «doctor killer»
• Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane – «libélula»
• Ekranoplano 903 Lun – «The Caspian Sea Monster»
• Polikarpov I-16 in the Spanish Civil Warñlive the decían «flat» O «fly»
• Curtiss C-46 – «The Hump»

An interesting fact about the Second World War and the French Waría, The United States used cósay in english for identificationónumber of aircraft, fighters were named after men and bombers were named after women.

During the war fríI put the fightersínames or nicknames with F and freighters names with C to facilitate identification.ón for example:

• Al bombardero Mitsubishi G3 le decían «Betty»,
• al Mig21 «Fishbed»,
• al Antonov AN-22 «Cock».

And these were like cóidentification signsón of NATO.

Names

Another peculiarity of aviationón, is that some planes, a más of their nicknames have names that are usually found present on the nose of airplanes.

These names are implemented by some Aerolíreasons for some of these commercial reasons to promote or remember:

• Cities where they operate.
• Outstanding personalities of culture, history or sport.
• Tour attractionsístatic.

¿Do you know someone's nickname?ún another avión? DéI hit the comments to add it to the list..