Unfortunate aircraft names

[Happy82]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_EA-18G_Growler

Very childish but I keep giggling at this one!

[Eric Mc]

There have been a lot worse than that -

Handley Page Gugnunc
Blackburn Blackburn
Avro Aldershot

[jjones]

fokkers

[jjones]

fokkers

[anonymous-user]

An-22

NATO Reporting Name: Cock

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 20th September 00:30

[MK1 GIT]

Beaver!!

[LimaDelta]

C-42 Ikarus. Wait, wasn't he the guy who, erm, you know, fell to earth?

[Dr Jekyll]

There was once an airship called the 'Mayfly'.

[Eric Mc]

And it didn't.

[simonej]

jjones said:

fokkers

This. Just this morning I was asked if I was "visual with the Fokker on final". It's an opportunity wasted not to read it back slightly incorrectly.

[Blackwedge]

How about - the Aviation Traders Accountant!

A Freddie Laker production;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_Traders_Acco...

[Simpo Two]

Now you see that's what happns when you let accountants run things...


Surely there is a Supermarine Eric...?

[eharding]

LimaDelta said:

C-42 Ikarus. Wait, wasn't he the guy who, erm, you know, fell to earth?

...and given that pedigree, you'd have to ask yourself why you would register one as G-CFIT.

That being said, why you would register an Extra 300 as G-GLOC might also be seen as tempting fate.

[Tango13]

Dr Jekyll said:

There was once an airship called the 'Mayfly'.

There was also a 'Mayfly' built and flown by Lilian Bland, the first woman to build and fly her own aircraft in Ireland and possibly the World.

[Badvok]

MiG 15, reporting name fagot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan–Gurevic...

[Dr Jekyll]

NATO reporting names for Soviet aircraft were supposed to be either meaningless or derogatory, so don't really count as unfortunate names.