Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!military Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Aircraft Nicknames Message-ID: <1990Sep20.022328.15430@cbnews.att.com> Date: 20 Sep 90 02:23:28 GMT References: <1990Sep11.024414.14310@cbnews.att.com> <1990Sep18.024251.20000@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24 Approved: military@att.att.com From: att!utzoo!henry >From: Adrian Hurt >>B-36, Convair Peacemaker = Aluminum Overcast; and Magnesium Overcast >>C-124, Douglas Globemaster II = Aluminum Overcast; and Old Shaky >>F-15, McDonnell Douglas Eagle = ... and Aluminum Overcast > >So, which one is the real Aluminum Overcast? :-) And from the UK, too. For shame. The "Aluminum Overcast" is the Avro Vulcan; I've never heard any other aircraft given that nickname. >>F-117, Lockheed = The Black Jet; Nighthawk; Frisbee; and F-19 ... >I thought F-19 was the code applied to the fictitious (?) curvy stealth >aircraft, as depicted in several models and a computer game. As has been mentioned before, there is good reason to suspect that F-19 was the designation the angular one was meant to have. "F-117" is a violation of the official designation rules, and the USAF seldom skips a designation number for the benefit of modellers and gamers. -- TCP/IP: handling tomorrow's loads today| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology OSI: handling yesterday's loads someday| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry