[WWI] Nicknames

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Now that you've reminded me, I think "quirk" was the FE2, not BE, although 'bloater' sounds familiar. FWIW 





Merrill 
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From: "Tom Dynia" <tdynia at austin.rr.com> 
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The Quirk 

Tom Dynia 



>   You mentioned the Roland D.II, everybody should know the C.II, 
> "walfisch" (whale), one of the listees mentioned the Bristol F2B, I 
> read somewhere, the it was  the "Biff" OT, and 'Brisfit' after the 
> war. The long serving, and truly dreadful BE2's should have had 
> some unflattering names, does anyone know? 


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