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From: cfiaime@ihnp4.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: re: sarcastic airline names
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Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 01:17:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30 01:17:00 1984
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Having spent some time in Wichita, Kansas working for Boeing
(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
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