coolest "name" for aircraft
 

Inspired by a post by mattd27, i thought we'd see how this turns out :)


id have to go with - hawker hurricane, now i will get stick for that no doubt because im a hurricane fan boy :D

so my back up choice would be -

erm.....

ah.....

um.....

typhoon, or avenger

B-24 Liberator. Go ahead and say it a few times then tell me it doesn't sound like one badass plane. :)

does sound good!! i'll admit it.

Bristol Bulldog

Hawker Fury

P-26 Peashooter :D

Oh and the Curtiss Helldiver :evil:

Um what else but the Yak-3!!! lol

Seriously though, I think the FW-190A "Butcher Birds" is a cool name. They were given that nickname by the Brits when they started to show up over England, and began slaughtering Spitfires and Hurricanes.

P-61 "Black Widow".

i like black widow.


I also like "widow maker" but i just like the name, it was named that for all the wrong reasons :(

And for the benefit of soviet ace -

the FW190 mostly abused the shitfire :D the hurricane was out datd as a fighter by the end of 1940 so wasnt really out and about dogfighting over europe to much, if it did run into a FW190 then i feel sorry for the lufwaffe pilot who would of got his ass handed to him by the hurricane hahahahaha.

Ok the highlighted part is a tiny lie :P

But on the whole, not many hurricanes were destroyed by the 190.

What about the Brits in North Africa? They were flying Hurricanes during 1940. But there weren't any FWs in North Africa at that time that I know of. :P

Another cool name is the "Zero". Funny how it was more than a "Zero". :P But I understand why it was called the Zero. :cool:

We had hurricanes in the african theatre throughout the war. As a fighter at first because it could hold its own against the 109E, but then later models started to surface and also the italian planes and the hurricane was out matched. They had hurricanes escorting hurricanes, for example -

for were patrolling or attacking, with 4 flying top cover protecting them. The lufwaffe would slughter the hurricane in africa after 1940. But once the spitfires started turning up the hurricane found a new role as a "hurribomber" and left the dogfighting to the spitfire.

In 40-41 the 190 was far superior to everything we had, it was so much better than the current spitfires. Only when the IX started showing up did the 190 have a fair fight on its hands.

Maybe i like the hurricane so much because it does the role i prefer to do in flying game... ground attack, yet the ability to dogfight if need be. I guess i always liked the hrrucane since i wa a young boy, when everyone used to adore the spitfire, yet the hurricane used to sit on the side lines rather neglected. All i say is -

let the fan boys have their shitfire :P id take a hurricane anyday.

Dude thats the funniest sentence I have ever seen on this board. I like your passion.

i do try :P

Yeah I've taken a liking to the Hurricane, though I always have like the Hurricane since watching the Battle of Britain. But since learning about the Yak-3, and other Soviet planes. I've grown more towards them, obviously. :P

Downside to the Hurricane, is its canopy. I don't like having all that metal around me. lol

For every con theirs a pro :D


109 cockpit has a much better field of view, thats the pro.

The con -

the cockpit lifts open, so trying to bail out isnt as easy as with the hurricane which slides open :D


then you get the yak and the LA series....

great all round vision and the ability to slide open.... dirty russians ;) lol

Why call it the shitfire????

I really dont appreciate you calling one of britains most distinguished fighters "Shit"

so Please dont refer to this noble peice of art as "shit"

I do take offence,

Regards Gaz

I didnt call it shit ;)

i called it a shitfire :P



its much like the rivalry between the 360 and the PS3, it happens. Well this is the hurricane and spitfire rivalry, its all in good humour and jest. :D


And as a side note, i like how you said "one of" and not "the" as we all know the hurricane was the top dog in that dept......


Im joking before you give me grief lol, i would comfortably say that after 1940 the spitfire was our (and possibly THE best fighter in the world) greatest fighter.

That is completely inaccurate. We all know the Yak-3 was the BEST fighter in the world. :P At least I think so, and the rest of the Soviet Red Air Force (wherever they may be?)

I really dont mean to give you grief

I must have got the wrong end of the stick.

I humbly apologise for that. Plus i couldnt agree more the Hurricane (of which i also am a huge fan of) would go somewhat unrivaled in the theatre of war.

Much respect, Gaz.

no woories gaz :) its all in good humour around here.


Soviet ace, if this game was anything to go by then the best dogfighter would be the LA-7 without a shadow of a doubt, closely followed by the B17 hahahaha, as for the mustang, well...... all the films and history book and veterans must of got it wrong, waaayyyy wrong, because in this game it sucks. :P

Personally, I like the sound of the p-40 Warhawk. Hurricane sounds like a pretty good name for an aircraft too.

But in the words of a comedian the hurricane can be described as "exciting at first but ends in disaster."


Just kidding, I love the hurricane. However I've fallen in love with the La-7 now.

Like I've said before. Speed isn't everything you know. Just take the I-16 for example. Great little maneuverable plane, and some good fire power to match! :cool: Only downside is speed and non-fuel injection. lol

Anyway, point is. I would take the Yak-3 over the La-7 anyday. Game or not. :cool: :D

As far as names go, I always kinda liked the Grumman Cats. Hellcat, Wildcat, Bearcat etc. My favorite is the fussin' and fightin' Tomcat, ready to take on a dozen of the enemy and probably get scratched up in the process LoL. Wait, I think my name is also a cat.

You guys are a trip! But you're all wrong. Yak? Awful!!!!! The cats are pretty good. Butcher Birds is great if it was a real name. But the best is:

Kingcobra! Damn good airplane. Too bad it's not in the game!

Yeah, it's a good plane to get chewed up by my A6M2-21 Zero! lol. Maybe even my "Oscar"? Either way, I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those death traps. Which they were since they had doors!! rather a proper canopy. :cool: Nice looking plane though.

A-20 Havoc.

Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war.

Agreed. I'm a fan of all the 'cats, but they saved the best for last.

Anytime, Baby! :cool:

This is your door speaking, if you can get me open, say hi to the tail fin for me.

Actually, I could be wrong, but I believe their biggest problem was the lack of a supercharger. I think the performance would have been much better with one. The engine was the biggest problem.

The armament was definatly not too shabby, definatly better than any Yak :-P

Exactly. ;)

Better armament, doesn't mean a better plane. The Yak-3 was much lighter due to just have twin MGs and a single cannon. While the P-63 Kingcobra, had four MGs and a nose cannon which weighed it down significantly. :D My Yak-3 could take care of the Kingcobra anyday. :cool: :P

F-104 Starfighter.

Sure, it's after WW2, but I still think it's pretty cool name for a plane. I guess it can be a bit cheesy though... ;)

I still love those early jets.

wow, some pretty good choices in here guys, i liking it :D

What about the B-36 peacemaker (was that used in WWII?)? If they had that plane drop the nuke there would have been some big controversy about the name. :)

Hans Marsielle was killed when bailing out of his 109 by hitting the verticle fin. You didn't have to open the door, the whole thing came off. And there were two, one on each side. Bailing of ANY fighter is risky and dangereous. If your canopy is jammed, you're dead. Two doors are better than one canopy. You guys should do more homework on the Kingcobra. Certain models DID have a supercharger and it had performance on par with the Mustang. It was an entirely differnt plane from the p39. The only reason the USAAF didn't order it was because they had already decided to go with the Mustang. The cobra showed up a few months too late. I have seen this plane many times in Midland Texas at the Confederate Air Force airshow right on the ass of Spits Mustangs, Corsairs, Bearcats and the like. It was a 400+mph fighter in level flight. The Russians got no supercharger because they needed it for low altitudes and they didn't want to pay for it. Unfortunately, we'll never know how good it could have been. We were talking about cool names. Not which of you kick another planes' ass.

Speaking of cool names, the Phantom is another favorite.

Nope. The B-36 was introduced in 1949, and was to replace the B-29 in long range bombing missions. It was originally flow in 1946, a year after WW2 (obviously).

The B-47 Stratojet,That's a cool name.

It was just some harmless fun, chill man. We've got nothing against the Kingcobra, but it's record isn't any better. So we make fun. But we'd do that with any other plane anyway.


EDIT: How could I forget the B-32 Dominator! Awesome name.

I like F-101 Voodoo & B-58 Hustler.

You mean, "phavorite."

Frame, sweet sig pic.

damn it i was gonna post the f-101 Voodoo as my choice :grin::grin:

+1 that is an awesome sig, lol. :)

Also, B-32 Terminator, no doubts that it's bomber with that name. :D

Fixed. :D

And on another note. I already said the B-32 Dominator. :) :cool:

SB2C Helldiver, is certainly the coolest name. It gives a perfect description of what the plane is for.

The TBD Devastator is another cool one. Too bad the plane itself sucked so bad. The only people it devastated were its crews.

B-52 Stratofortress. "fortress in the clouds" Now that's a name!

I'd nominate the Blackburn "Roc" as the worst name for a fighter. The aircraft was incredibly ugly and was unstable with a top speed of 220 MPH.

Imagine Jo Brand as a fighter plane and you'll have some idea as to how ugly this aircraft was. If you find a picture online, keep a sickbag handy.

Basically a Skua dive bomber with a turret added to turn it into something like the Boulton-Paul "Defiant".

The Roc was used to defend Bermuda from Luftwaffe bombers.

Fortunately, after the loss of 169 squadron's Defiants in one single action, during the BoB, the RAF scrapped plans for a turreted Hurricane, the Hawker "Hotspur".

The sixteen gunned Hawker "Tornado" was also scrapped about the same time.

The P-66 Vultee "Vangard" isn't exactly an awe inspiring name. Fortunately only Canadians (training) and the Chinese (combat) flew them.

Least original name for a fighter has to be the Wackett C-13 "Boomerang", bearing in mind that it was designed and made by Australians.

I still think that the "Hellcat" and "Wildcat" have the best names for a fighter aircraft.

I know it isnt WW2 but as my name surgest its the Avro VULCAN. go on say it...
other favorites include
Tempest
Whirlwind
Oh and my favorite helicopter name is
Westland Widgeon

I think some of the NATO reporting names for Soviet aircraft are pretty funny, the SU-27 Frogfoot being my fav. I've even read that a lot of Soviet pilots took offense to many of the those NATO names, the MiG-21 "Fishbed" particularly drawing the pilot's ire as it was their premier fighter in the early to mid 60's.

The G44 Widgeon was originally a twin engined flying boat built by Grumman in the '40s. Pure fun, I'd love to have one for bass fishing. It would make a great RV!

Fw-190

With a name like "butcher bird" i'd of been shocked at any other choice ;)

Su-17 "Fitter" isn't really a cool name. BUT that jet is cool. :cool:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...esiny_49RB.JPG

http://richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/...l/SeaVenom.jpg

The SEA VENOM

Nice! That's a P-38 gone jet :P.

and carrier based.

Just thought of the F2H Banshee.

I'm not sure what a Banshee is exactly, but it sure sounds cool.

I'm pretty sure it's a mythical creature of some sort. The google bars right in front of me but....I honestly can't be arsed.:grin:

yet you can be bothered to type a reply

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banshee

Lol.

Nope. The Sea Venom has a single engine :razz:

Yeah, I kinda noticed that. Can't deny the similarities though. It was the first plane I thought of when I saw the pic.

Wow, I'm surprised no one has said F-86 SABRE!!!! Awesome name. And it's an awesome sound jet of the early years. :cool:

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircra...lights/F86.jpg

Double post..

Ah yeah! I totally forgot about the Sabre. There was a great episode of dogfights on about it last night. I believe the episode name was "Supersonic", probably one of the better dogfights I've seen actually.

Not only was it a great figher....but I believe its the most beautiful aircraft ever made.

Now that is for a whole other thread.;) I'd actually have to think about the question for a bit, but off hand I'd say the phantom is a pretty sweet looking plane.
http://daphne.palomar.edu/scrout/ams..._in_flying.jpg

....and hey, it's got a nice name too!

Phatom's an alright plane, but it's to big for me. P/F-80 is a sweet jet. P/F-80 Shooting Star. :cool: It was Americas answer to the German 262, if the war had lasted just a couple more years. Then we'd of had B-29s, and P-80s flying over German airspace!! Speaking of which, the P-59 Aircomet was a cool name. Sad the prototype didn't succeed in what it was supposed to. But hey, that's why we've got the P/F-80. :cool:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...n_P-80s_af.jpg
P/F-80 Shooting Star

http://www.steeldragons.net/aircomet.jpg

The F-16 Fighting Falcon

Not WW2, but still a sick name :)

The MiG-15's was probably the worst though. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader, as I'm pretty sure you can't post that here.

On the other hand, Flanker is an awesome name. Fulcrum is not bad either.

Fun little trivia about the F4H Phantom II. Given the naming conventions that McDonnell used at the time, the project manager had originally wanted to name is Satan, but the name was considered to controversial at the time. Apparently, one of the other names proposed was Mithras, the Persian god of light. linky

F8F Bearcat...cool name!
http://www.vg-photo.com/airshow/cama...f/DSC_7424.jpg

ok as someone has posted the sea venom i got to post my fav plane

dh f3 vampire

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/a...vampire-f3.jpg

You mean the MiG-15 "Fagot"? Which the the meaning of "fagot" here, is a strong bundle of sticks and twigs. Not the sexual slur.

Best name AND best looking its without a doubt the hurricane, you all know it :D

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z..._IIC_PZ865.jpg

also known as a kittyhawk, warhawk is much better!!

My late father was an airframe fitter on De Haviland Vampires in Iraq in 1950 (when it was still part of the British Empire) and in Egypt until 1952 (Also then part of the British Empire).

The Vampire was the world's fastest fighter in 1952 but did suffer from hydraulic leakage problems regarding the undercarriage in the hot weather, so my father told me.

My father had to help find a 1" calibre musket ball that had penetrated a port wing of one Vampire, due to some Arab taking a pot shot at one as it came into land in Egypt, and it had entered but not exited and so was rolling around inside the wing. The whole wing had to be stripped down until it was found.

He also had to sit in the cockpit of a captured Bf-110 that was still in a hangar so as to work the brakes as it was wheeled out to be scrapped.

He descrbed it as a WW2 twin engined fighter with a split tail. I showed him a Bf-110 picture and he recognised it.

Today the aircraft would be priceless in value, in 1951 it was taking up valuable hangar space.

As well as the better name: Tomahawk! :cool:

The "Fairey Battle" light bomber sounds more like a punch up in a gay bar.

lol, yeah very true!

still.... it got the first RAF aerial victory of the second world war ;)











still a heap of shit though

Wow the poor idiot that got shot down by that thing......

Couldnt it have been decent at ground attack? With that huge ass turret for defense?

A Sergeant Rear Gunner shot down a German Bf-109 D over the French - German border during the 1939 "Phoney War" period about 6 months before the Blitz Kreig started.

The Fairey Battle was the RAFs first all metal aircraft, was the first aircraft to fly with the Rolls Royce Merlin engine (unsupercharged) and was the first RAF aircraft to carry a 0.50" Calibre HMG (right wing mounted). It also had its bomb bays in the wings.

Top speed was 247 MPH.

Number still flying today is one example in Canada.

Well your just a plain old walking "Plane Encyclopedia" aren't you? :P

The F4 Phantom is sweet looking? You ever seen one in person? In Vietnam it was known as "Big Ugly", the plane that "had it's aerodynamics decided by committee" and "Proof that with big enough engines a brick can fly" LoL. Technically the F4 is the "Phantom 2". The original Phantom entered service in 1947 and was the first jet to operate from US carriers. I'm certainly not trying to bash a great plane's war record, but imho, good looking the F4 aint.

I disagree, its much like the Apache, Its so Ugly, its Beautiful

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Wi9XVb4mJ90/SI...I/IMG_2397.JPG


The Foland Gnat.

oooh the gnat another childhood fav of mine :grin: the red arrows used to fly them i think before they upgraded to the hawk :grin:

They did indeed. Im a huge fan

Heres a pic of the Red arrows Gnat T1,(which was the first plane used by 'The Red Arrows' way back in 1965) next to the Current BAE Hawk


http://www.deltaweb.co.uk/reds/images/gnat402.jpg


They only had 5 pilots when they first started out in the T1, until eventually recruiting more to become "The Diamond Nine"

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviatio.../4/0999463.jpg

Yellow jacks were the perdicessor of the Red Arrows.

yes the yellow jacks that brings it all back from my childhood :grin:

i painted one of my gnats in that scheme after reading about them in a book my uncle had on aerobatic teams :grin:

That wouldnt be the Airfix 1/72 Foland Gnat would it?
oh another of my personal favorites
http://www.classicairframes.com/arti...g_newtitle.jpg
Westland Whirlwind.

Wow.. that gnat is ugly :P. Sorry to say, but it looks like it bumped its nose into a wall at 200 mph :P.

Go on get, away with you leave us to savour the memories of the Beautiful Folland Gnat.

P.S. how can you say the gnat is ugly when there a picture if a whirlwind in this thread!

i see them too much i live near where they r based and they frequently do practise runs over lincoln

Arnt they based at Valey?

I've had the joys of helping refuel the red arrows amongst others, my fav being the hawker hurricane, though we didnt really do the refuelling of it. The BBMF has crew do to that.

The red arrows are based at skampton and the bbmf from coningsby, both in lincolnshire :D

I've also been in the lancaster bomber (not flown though) and it was lovely, but very scary at the same time. It was eery sitting in the rear turret all alone.

I definatly remember them at valley, they must have been off to an airshow or something.

The RAF hawk trainers are based in the valley :D

So you will always see those flying about, we get them here (blackpool) daily practising ILS approachs etc. Mix that in with the eurofighter typhoon flying over every 2 minutes and its pretty annoying sometimes.

yeah its the gunnery school and the hawks there are black.
These were red red i tells yea!

red arrows then :D

I had guessed as much.
Back on topic i think tiger moth deserves a place here.

http://www.defenselink.mil/transform...lobemaster.jpg
GLOBEMASTER
what a name!

+1

@ vulcan thanks for that pic of the globemaster kudos to you my friend i now have a awsome wallpaper :grin:

Yes it's a good name, so good that it's already been used twice LoL.
The original C-74 Globemaster was a radial engined transport from the late 40's that participated in the Berlin airlift. Later came the C-124 Globemaster 2, which also had 4 radials. The C-17 is the Globemaster 3, and if you think it looks cool in the picture, you gotta watch one takeoff :-P

Awesome call on all of these, but especially the SB. Probably my favourite WW2-era aircraft, all things considered.

My vote for best (certainly most fitting) name though (provided we're counting 'official unofficial' names) would the the SR-71 'Habu' - 'Blackbird' was the name used once it was acknowledged to the public, but all who worked with the aircraft preferred the former name, a Habu being a dark poisonous pit viper native to the island chain including Okinawa, where many of the SR-71s operational sorties were flown from.

and then there were tanks....
 

... I know this is an aiplane site and Game. But I have allot of awesome tank screens who even those pesky plane Nerds. Err.. I mean 'Speciallist'

So here are some awesome Panzer screenies;)

Get this, a Leo2 in the USA! :grin:
http://data3.primeportal.net/tanks/v...2a5_2_of_7.jpg

I soo wanna do this....:(
http://data3.primeportal.net/tanks/v...2a6_1_of_8.jpg

the bigger the better they say, huh?
http://data3.primeportal.net/tanks/v...2a6_8_of_8.jpg

Micheal Wittman looked allot Better!!:cool:
http://data3.primeportal.net/tanks/v...2a5_7_of_7.jpg

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/4...ailaspxsv9.jpg

über Cool! :cool:
http://data3.primeportal.net/tanks/p...d_08_of_15.jpg

let's face it? tanks are allway's cooler then Aircraft..?;)