Pelican is sometimes used inflight for coordination but it’s also the name of VP-45. As far as I know, no common slang nicknames akin to the a-10 being the Thunderbolt but to everyone it’s the Warthog. Or the s-3 Viking being the war Hoover.
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Aircraft's loving nicknames
- Thread starter phrogpilot73
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And it’s ALSA brevity 🤓.
Makes me think we should nickname the -R “the sauntering pony”
NATO Joint brevity not ALSA. Not that it matters though; I've never seen anyone with a "poseidon driver" patch or a variation of it. And if they did, they'd probably be made fun of since there's three in every plane. All our "flair" comes from deployment/det locations or crew patches. No one cares what the plane itself is called. Except when people call it "the jet", which is dumb. Most I'd go is "the bird".
In the Air Force everything is a "jet", even the prop airplanes. Yes, we have people who will say they are "stepping to the jet" when they're walking to a T-6, or a C-130. It's super cringy to me.