[WWI] Nicknames

[Tom Mason]

The whispering death was the F4U Corsair and Curtiss called al there airplanes hawk or some derivation of it as goshawk etc. To get back to OT as someone mentioned before the Germans didn't seem to have the penchant for names much less derogatory names as did the British.

T.O.M.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Crawford Neil 
  To: 'World War I Modeling Mailing List' 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 2:37 AM
  Subject: Re: [WWI] Nicknames


  A lot of the nicknames, and aeroplane names that are bandied about in
  aeroplane mags and on the net are made up after the event.
  I've never believed the Beaufighter was called the whispering death by the
  Japanese, that sounds like typical propaganda to me. The Curtiss CW21
  wasn't called the Demon,  somebody just mis-read the abbreviation for
  demonstrator. And I'm not going to go into the nonsensical names they 
  have invented for late WW2 german prototypes. 
  Do we have any mythical names and nicknames for WW1 aeroplanes?
  /Neil 
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