[WWI] Nicknames

[Ivan Carlos Ruchesi]

>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.
 
There were probably many nicknames at the flying schools, but they used different types and we can just know them by means of letters written by the airmen. I´ve read about a pupil who hit a tribune at the Albatros Werke flying field due to engine failure, so he became known as the "Tribunen Stürmer" (the tribune had to be dismantled...), and I think planes also got nicknames.
Some nicknames were given by the aeronautical press after the war, for example "The Flying Razor" regarding the Fokker D.VIII...
 
 
Ivan
 


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