sarcastic airline names
cfi...@ihnp4.uucp
(Boring), and also flying for a living, I have heard some real
good, and sarcastic, names for airlines and fixed-base operators
(flight schools, fuel stops, repair stations, and such).
Air Midwest was known as Air Mudwest or the Mudliner
Hughes Airwest (a part of Republic since 1979) was known as
the "Flying Bannana" due to the color of their airplanes.
And, I have never trusted Midway Airlines to go all the way.
Yingling Flight school was known as Ding-a-ling, while Redwing Flight
Activites (Augusta, Kansas) was known as Dead Thing Fright Activities.
Also in Wichita were United Bitch (United Beech), Fool and Line
(Fuel and Line), and Common Terror (Comatara).
Up here in the Chicago area, we have Plane-smashers (Planemasters)
to worry about. They are on the same field as Chicago Bitch (Beech).
Of course, when Beechcraft came out with the Musketeer airplane,
everyone called it the Mouseketeer. (M I C - K E Y B E E C H!)
We who flew for Cessna Pilot Centers would spend the day in a
172 Chicken Hawk (Skyhawk), or maybe a Cardinal RG (Ruptured Goose).
If you flew a Piper Cherokee, it might be a Piper Worrier (Warrior),
or maybe an Error (Arrow).
Being a pilot for a small charter company, we would look with
distain at having to ride as a passenger in a airplane flown
by "Blow Torch International Airlines", or "Kerosene Queen Airlines",
both generic terms for any airline flying jet equipment. And every
pilot I worked with had an application in at each airline, too!
As a parting shot, I heard this one evening near Springfield, Mo.:
Approach Control: Delta 173, say your position.
Delta 173: Roger, I'm the first officer, what's your position?
Keep it low, slow, and within gliding distance!
Jeff Williams
ihnp4!cfiaime
Jim Crandell
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Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
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Neal Weidenhofer
Back in the mid-1940's, my dad was a mechanic for Continental and
I remember his telling about the carboard cannisters that they used in
those days for motion sickness (in place of the bags with the bridge score
sheets that you find in the seat pockets nowadays). They were called
"erp-cups".
There was also a manufacturer of private planes in those long-past
days known as Aercoupe. I'm sure you can guess by this time what their
nickname was. I always wondered if there was a connection between this
unfortunate circumstance and their no longer being with us (if indeed they
aren't--I haven't heard of them since).
Regards,
Neal Weidenhofer
Denelcor, Inc.
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n
Do you know how US Air got its name?
Their previous name (Agony) was of concern to the
top management, so they ordered a public opinion survey for
people to rate airlanes. The results showed that US Air was more
favored than Alleghenny [sic]. Since US Air was a fictitious
airlane in that survey they decided to change Agony to
US Scare...
This is a true story, unless someone proves the contrary.
--
isenberg
nat...@hp-pcd.uucp
certainly have heard of the Piper Traumahawk.
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Nathan Meyers
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