Funny Airliner Nicknames

[Jackson]

A318: Nanobus, Baby Bus

A319: Microbus, Shorty, Short Bus

A320: MiniBus, NintendoJet, ScareBus, Chainsaw, Deathjet, Freddie Kruegers wet dream, Toulouse Grasscutter, The Strimmer, Fifi, Die-by-Wire, the French Bitch, Sully's Ark
(What's the difference between an A320 and a beaver? 4000 trees per hour.) Known as 'The John Wayne' Because they 'Chop down trees, move mountains and Native Indians!!'

A340: Four-person Hair Dryer, LowRider (takes so long to get off the ground)

A380: Double Decker Bus, Megabus, Whalejet

ATR: All Those Relays.

BAC 111:Pocket rocket, Bone Vibrator.

BAe146: Viscount 900, Smurfjet with 5 APU's, The Gas Chamber, Bumble-et, Baby Jumbo, Bring Another Engine, 1-4-Sick, Tonka Toy, 4 oil leaks connected by an electrical fault, The Quadra-Puff, Lead Sled, Mini Galaxy, Sky Dozer, Fisher Price 747, The Slug, Toxic Terror, Muffler (Because all the noise is on the inside), Fruit Bat, Flying cockroach, Dungbeetle, Jump Jet, The SUV of RJs, Jumbolino, Aluminum Buffalo.

BAe ATP: Advanced/Another Technical Problem, The Parrot (cos it's just a big Budgie), Ancient Technology Perpetuated, Skoda, 80p, Wigwam (A TeePee).

BAe Jetstream: Junkstream, Wetdream, Soda-stream, Sweatstream, Jetscream, AreWeThereYet?stream, J-Ball.

BAe Nimrod: Never Intended for Maritime Reconnaissance Or Development.

Bristol Freighter: Whispering Death, 10,000 rivets in close formation

Boeing Stratocruiser: Stratoboozer (a reference to the bar these aircraft had on board), "The Best Three Engined Plane Crossing the Atlantic"

Boeing 727: 3 holer, Tri-jet, Trisaurus, Triple crome-plated stovepipe, Jurassic Jet, Ear Blaster

Boeing 737: Tin mouse, Maggot, Pocket Rocket Socket, FLUF (Fat Little Ugly F**cker), Light Twin, Baby Boeing, Fat Freddy, Guppy, Thunder Guppy (series 1/200), Yuppy Guppy, Super Guppy (series 3/4/500), Pig, Bobby (BOeing BaBY), Rudder Rotor, Fat Albert.

Boeing 737NG: Super FLUF (Fat Little Ugly F**cker).

Boeing 747: Jumbo Jet, Whale, The Valiant, Upstairs and Downstairs, Lump, Humpback, Queen of the Skies (used for many aircraft but probably mostly the 747).

Boeing 747SP: Short Plane, Stupid Purchase.

Boeing 757: Stick Insect, AtariFerrari, Slippery Snake, Flying Pencil, Long Tall Sally (long legs and two great big...engines.)

Boeing 757-300: Long misery, Subway Train.

Boeing 767: Dumpster, Slug, Stumpy

Boeing 777: B737 on steroids, Cripple Seven (I.F.E. Problems??), Bigfoot (from the landing gear), Sasquatch, T7, Seventh Wonder, Trouble Seven, Grouper (the front end does look like one of those fish)

Boeing 787 Dreamliner: Tupperjet (plastic tupperware), Firebird (since several early on-board fires), Seven-Late-Seven, Bad Dream Liner, Flatliner, Sparky the Game Changer, Binliner.

Bombardier Q400: Mega-Whacker

Bombardier CRJ: BarbieJet, Canuckjet, Canuckiejet, Ken&Barbie Dreamjet, Reset Jet, Replacement Jet, Climb Restricted Jet

Cessna Citation: Levitation, Crustacean, Mutation, Slowtation, Nearjet, Bugjet

Concorde: Great White, The Rocket, Paraffin Pencil

DC 3: Dakotasaurus Rex, Gooney Bird, Draggin' Wagon.

DC 6: Douglasaurus Rex

DC 8: DC Late, Old Smokey, Greasy8, Death Cruiser, Whiney Bird, Cigarette Jets (Long skinny fuselages and long thin engines that smoked)

DC 9-10/15: Mini-Me, Baby Nine

DC 9: Greasy 9, Diesel 9, DC3-GT

DC 10: Diesel 10, Death Contraption 10, Death Cruiser 10, Daily Crash 10, Donald's Disaster, Crowd Killer

EMB145: Jungle Jet, Barbie Jet, The Windows 98 Plane (seems like you spend more time rebooting the aircraft than actually flying it), Bendy Jet, Emb180 (taxi to the runway, then 180 for taxi back to ramp)

Fokker 100: The Scud Because they point them at Europe and they don't come back!, Dutch Oven (lousy air conditioning), Runway Hog, The Mother Fokker (as it is the largest Fokker, but also because it sucks)

F-104 Starfighter Flying coffin, Widowmaker, Manned missile, Zipper, The Pregnant Hatpin, Erdnagel (literally "earth nail"), from the military term for "tent peg"

Lockheed Constellation: Connie, Cancellation

Lockheed Tristar: Bistar (Had so many RB211-22B failures), El-10-Elemon, FrightStar, Tritanic, Swamp Eater, Swamp Buggy

Lockheed YF12: The Thing!

C130 Hercules: Fat Albert, Trash hauler, Herkybird

MD 11: Mad Dog, Mega Dog, Mechanical Disaster 11, More Death 11, MD-911, She Who Won't Land, She Who Won't Sell

MD 80: Mad Dog 80, Stupid 80 (They call them Super 80's), Minimum Delay 80 (Minutes), Super Tube, Super Slug, Douglas Death Tube, Long Beach Sewer Pipe

Mitsubishi Zero: type one lighter ( due to its ability to readily catch fire when attacked!)

SAAB: Slaab, Swedes Aren't Airplane Builders, S.O.B

VC-10: Iron Duck, Vickers Knickers, The flying chandelier
Vickers Varsity: Flying pig

[Jona L.]

Lockheed Constellation: Connie, Cancellation
Had so many RB211-22B failures), El-10-Elemon, FrightStar, Tritanic, Swamp Eater, Swamp Buggy

you do know, that the constellation was a piston-liner, and not powered by RB211? I guess 2 of the RB211 weigh as much as the whole Constellation....

[eiva]

BAe146: Buy Another Engine

[jolmstrom]

737-683: Piglet

[Jackson]

you do know, that the constellation was a piston-liner, and not powered by RB211? I guess 2 of the RB211 weigh as much as the whole Constellation....

I know. Whilst editing the original text, I must have accidentally deleted the Tristar.

Here is the link to the page. It includes some military aircraft also and much more airliners.

http://www.b737.org.uk/aircraftnicknames.htm

[LemonButt]

DC-3: a collection of parts flying in loose formation

[Jackson]

DC-3: a collection of parts flying in loose formation

"Loose Formation"  

My personal favourite are the B752 and B753. "Subway Train", "Flying Pencil" and "Stick Insect".

[tcrlaf]

MD-80's were called "Lawn Darts", due to a series of crashes in the 80's.

[DavidBurnie]

The 737 should be called Yo Momma, because it's short, fat, ugly and everyone's ridden her.

[[SC] - King Kong]

Anything Airbus can be called worst invention by the humans

[Donnieboy]

F-104 the Thud (the sound the engine makes at start)

[BOEING717]

BAE146. At AIR BC the pilots told me they called the 146 the pretend-a-jet, because of its slow cruise speed. I always thought that was a great name.