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- From: doug@alliant.com (Doug Bloomberg)
- Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics
- Subject: Re: Unflattering descriptions
- Summary: Aircraft nicknames
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.232620.10377@alliant.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 23:26:20 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alliant.1993Jan2.232620.10377
- References: <alien.026m@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- Organization: Alliant Computer Systems Corp.
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- In article <alien.026m@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
- >I'm trying to compile a list of the more, shall we say, unflattering
- >descriptions that have been applied to various aircraft over the years.
- >Does anyone know any good ones? The short list I've been able to recall
- >myself goes something like this ... sources omitted to protect the
- >guilty :-)
- >
- >Buccaneer : "The Banana Bomber." (The prototype was given the codename ARNA
- >(A Royal Navy Aircraft), and "Blackburn ARNA" soon became "Black Banana".)
- >
- >E-3 Sentry : "A Boeing 707 being raped by a flying saucer."
- >
- > etc.
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- Beech Bonanza "Forktailed Doctor Killer"
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- Doug Bloomberg
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