Military Aircraft & nicks. Pt 1: Transports

MikeD

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A section on Military Transports and their common nicknames. Separate threads I'll start will cover other types of military aircraft. This section is for transports only.

Ladies and gentlemen.....meet Fred!
 

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The $1.19....aka dollar nineteen.
 

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I'm assuming you mean the informal and unofficial nicknames...

C-1: Stoof (S2F) with a roof, Willie Fudd, Mail Truck

C-5: Aluminum Overcast, Cumulus Aluminus, Big Mac, Fat Albert, FRED (Foolishly Ridiculous Economic Disaster), Linda Lovelace, Queer (every time it kneels, it blows something), Flying Football Field, Dildo with wings

C-17: Mighty Mouse, Buddha (it's short, fat, and everybody worships it), Moose, Barney

C-23: ?

C-45: Witchita Wobbler, Twin Harvard, SNB (Slow Navy Bomber)

C-46: Whale, Dumbo

C-47: Goonie Bird, Skytrooper, Biscuit Bomber, Sister Gabby/Bull5h1t Bomber (dropped propaganda during Vietnam), Vomit Comet (nicknamed by Army paratroopers in Normandy invasion), Dowager Dutchess, Placid Plodder, Grand Old Lady

C-54: ?

C-60: ?

UC-78: Bamboo Bomber, Rhapsody in Glue, Double-breasted Cub, Boxkite, Useless-78, San Joaquin Beaufighter

C-97: Boeing Trimotor (they had a reputation for engine failures)

C-119: Widowmaker, Crowd Killer, Dollar-19

C-121: Connie, Flying Speedbrake

C-123: Bookie Bird

C-130: Herk, Fat Albert, Herky Bird, Hercu-Slease, Vibrator, Bugsmasher, 4-fan trash can

C-131: ?

C-141: Star Lizard, Lockheed Lizard (in Camo), Tube of Pain, Quarter Pounder (C-5 is Big mac), Flying Pencil, T-Tailed Mountain Magnet

CH-46: Frog

CH-47: Hook, 5h1thook, Contra-rotating death banana, Wokka

CH-53: Super 5h1tter

UH-60: Hydraulic Nightmare, Velcrohawk

UH-1: Hog, Slick
(UH-1 crew: Skid-kids)
 
The only cargo plane to operate from the aircraft carrier, of which I flew for 8+ years, almost 2000hrs and over 500 traps. I will say it's a big POS, tought to fly but tough as nails as well. The C-2A Greyhound, the COD.

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bunk22 said:
The only cargo plane to operate from the aircraft carrier, of which I flew for 8+ years, almost 2000hrs and over 500 traps. I will say it's a big POS, tought to fly but tough as nails as well. The C-2A Greyhound, the COD.
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VRC-50?

Questions:

As a C-2 pilot, were you dual-qualed for the E-2....kind of like a 757/767 type? Or are they that different?

Have the C-2s received the propeller conversion that the E-2s have?

Are VRC units shore based, or were your planes assigned to a CV, kind of like many of the old C-1As were?
 
The MiG-15 the •. Would love to call in while flying missions over the DMZ.... Control, XXXX we have • activity in the north. The box is cold. :)
 
MikeD said:
VRC-50?

Questions:

As a C-2 pilot, were you dual-qualed for the E-2....kind of like a 757/767 type? Or are they that different?

Have the C-2s received the propeller conversion that the E-2s have?

Are VRC units shore based, or were your planes assigned to a CV, kind of like many of the old C-1As were?
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VRC-50 no longer exists, decommed in 95 or so. Only VRC-30, VRC-40, VAW-120 and TPS have COD's. VRC-50 did have the best callsign of all 3 VRC squadrons though....Green Bush. 30 is Passworda and 40 is Rawhide. I would have just shortened 50's to Bush. The VRC squadrons are technically no longer composite squadrons and thus should be VR-30/40. Composite squadrons fly more than one type of aircaft, like they all used to.

Different TMS with the E2/C2 and thus no qualified for both. The engines and cockpit gauges, as well as some systems are different. Some IP's at the FRS do get dual qualified but not the norm.

VRC squadrons deploy 2 plane DET's with each airwing (CVW). So they are a standard part of the VFA/VQ/VAW/HS/VRC make-up of the wing. The dets operate from forward logistic bases once the carrier is within range. VRC-30 spends more time on the boat due to the bigger pond. From 1996 to 2000, all VRC-30 COD detachments operated soley from the boat and flew day/night from the carrier. The det in Japan, DET-5 always operated from shore but flew nights all the way to 2003. So when I was an IP at the FRS, I flew night traps until that time. I spent 9 out of 12 months on the boat for my first two deployments. I spent about 80% of my time off the boat for my last two. VRC-40 spends very little time on the boat, they can hop across Europe to follow the ship.
 
Cool, thanks for the info. Even though I flew fighters, I appreciate all mil, and many civil planes. The C-2 is one of those ones that seems too big for the boat, but graceful as it operates from it. So are VRC units a formal part of the airwing then? Or just "attached"? They're VR units now.....like the C-9B sqdns?

On a related note, I always find it eerie, that video of the C-2 departing the Ranger in 1970 and crashing into the sea after the cat shot.

bunk22 said:
VRC-50 no longer exists, decommed in 95 or so. Only VRC-30, VRC-40, VAW-120 and TPS have COD's. VRC-50 did have the best callsign of all 3 VRC squadrons though....Green Bush. 30 is Passworda and 40 is Rawhide. I would have just shortened 50's to Bush. The VRC squadrons are technically no longer composite squadrons and thus should be VR-30/40. Composite squadrons fly more than one type of aircaft, like they all used to.

Different TMS with the E2/C2 and thus no qualified for both. The engines and cockpit gauges, as well as some systems are different. Some IP's at the FRS do get dual qualified but not the norm.

VRC squadrons deploy 2 plane DET's with each airwing (CVW). So they are a standard part of the VFA/VQ/VAW/HS/VRC make-up of the wing. The dets operate from forward logistic bases once the carrier is within range. VRC-30 spends more time on the boat due to the bigger pond. From 1996 to 2000, all VRC-30 COD detachments operated soley from the boat and flew day/night from the carrier. The det in Japan, DET-5 always operated from shore but flew nights all the way to 2003. So when I was an IP at the FRS, I flew night traps until that time. I spent 9 out of 12 months on the boat for my first two deployments. I spent about 80% of my time off the boat for my last two. VRC-40 spends very little time on the boat, they can hop across Europe to follow the ship.
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Hey Bunk22, you don't happen to run into Ian Morris down there in PNS do ya?
 
MikeD said:
Cool, thanks for the info. Even though I flew fighters, I appreciate all mil, and many civil planes. The C-2 is one of those ones that seems too big for the boat, but graceful as it operates from it. So are VRC units a formal part of the airwing then? Or just "attached"? They're VR units now.....like the C-9B sqdns?

On a related note, I always find it eerie, that video of the C-2 departing the Ranger in 1970 and crashing into the sea after the cat shot.
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I would have rather flown fighters than C-2's....from a pure flying aspect. Hell, as an IP in the T-34, it beats the COD and when I fly the T-6 Texan II next year, even better. However, the lifestyle of a COD pilot on cruise can't be beat. For example, we lived in the Regent Hotel in Singapore for 4 months. For those who haven't been to Sing or the Regent, it's an awesome top hotel right in downtown. Boose, babes, bars almost every night. The COD was a bith to fly, a bitch to land on the boat....a true thunder pig.

That was the older C-2A model....not the later built C-2A(R) models. A big difference was the cargo cage. The first C-2's didn't have them and when that aircraft launched, the large generator wasn't strapped down properly and flew aft, throwing off the cg and the result was the pitch up off the cat. With the cargo cage, impossible for that to happen.
 
GalaxyIFE said:
You fools are STILL out?!? Geez...it's like an AD mission or something. I should of jumped on that trip...good cash!

For the record, I have never heard "Queer" used before for Freddy.
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Yea, sorry buddy, we left you guys with no jets to fly :D Cha ching!
 
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