"Why the C-17 is called ‘the Moose’" Topic
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Editor in Chief Bill | 13 Aug 2021 9:20 p.m. PST |
Air Force jets have a lot of great nicknames. The legendary A-10 Thunderbolt II attack plane is called the Warthog because of its weird-looking appearance and pugnacious, close-to-the mud spirit; the F-16 Fighting Falcon is called the Viper because it resembles the eponymous spacecraft in Battlestar Galactica (according to some accounts), and the sexagenarian B-52 Stratofortress is called the BUFF (big ugly fat er) because, well, that's what it is… Task & Purpose: link |
CVA31bhr | 14 Aug 2021 6:57 a.m. PST |
link I'd heard most of them, but this list added a few to my vocabulary. |
emckinney | 14 Aug 2021 11:22 a.m. PST |
The F-105's nickname comes from Howdy-Doody. |
chironex | 14 Aug 2021 7:04 p.m. PST |
Nobody's ever called it the moose that I've ever heard of. Globemaster III, perhaps, but not moose. Still, I suppose when you're in the job you use a bunch of slang no-one else does. |
epturner | 15 Aug 2021 10:46 a.m. PST |
All the C17 call signs here in my AO (for the US ones, anyway) are MOOSE. Pretty funny. Eric |
epturner | 15 Aug 2021 10:54 a.m. PST |
I almost forgot, there's a C-5 pilot I see regularly who has a patch on his sleeve that has the front view of a C-5 with the words "Trust Us, It Flies" underneath. Eric |
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