What is your dream Alt mode ?

[Jetfire in the sky]

Gok there is this for a Monkey http://beastwarstransformers.wikia.com/wiki/B%27Boom

[Raptormesh]

The YF-23, which I have an unholy amount of love for:



But there is NO way TFs can do justice to that sleek fuselage. An Impossibiruuu.

So I choose...a schoolbus!

[Hursticon]

The YF-23, which I have an unholy amount of love for:

*snip*

But there is NO way TFs can do justice to that sleek fuselage. An Impossibiruuu.

Oh WOW!!! - The angles & flow are incredible, that bird is friggin' awesome!

[drifand]

I only knew it as Fairchild A10A as thunderbolt, and a lot of people know it as that as well.
But again lets not jump over each other. It is a nice aircraft.

[Raptormesh]

I only knew it as Fairchild A10A as thunderbolt, and a lot of people know it as that as well.
But again lets not jump over each other. It is a nice aircraft.

Military aircraft usually have an official name and one that's used by the crew. For example the F-16 is officially the Fighting Falcon but its commonly called the Viper. Same deal with Super Hornets being called Rhinos.

Other examples:
EA-18G Growlers / Grizzlies.
F-14 Tomcat / Turkeys (yes!)
F-18 Hornet / Bugs

[Hursticon]

Military aircraft usually have an official name and one that's used by the crew. For example the F-16 is officially the Fighting Falcon but its commonly called the Viper. Same deal with Super Hornets being called Rhinos.

Other examples:
EA-18G Growlers / Grizzlies.
F-14 Tomcat / Turkeys (yes!)
F-18 Hornet / Bugs

Would you happen to know what the F-15Es are referred to as?
(My favourite aircraft next to the Spitfire )

[Raptormesh]

Would you happen to know what the F-15Es are referred to as?
(My favourite aircraft next to the Spitfire )

Yeah Mudhens or Beagle(Bomb eagles) .

[Hursticon]

Yeah Mudhens or Beagle(Bomb eagles) .

Haha! - Really?, that's awesome!

[drifand]

Well the rest or maybe the world known them from official names. like said I only know
Hornet as it is F18
Tomcat as it is F14
Eagle as it is F15

When I buy a model kit, it also uses the official name, and also note, there isn't aka either.

Further to add, those nicknames may only stay in the US, other parts of the world sticked to what the official name that it is called.

Hell, I know what is a blackbird is, please for god sake don't tell me jetfire.

[Jetfire in the sky]

I'm pretty sure the "official" names that most of us know planes by are designated by NATO. I have been a plane buff for many years and have served with some of the aforementioned aircraft and one that has seemed to have always had two names was the A10, both Thunderbolt II which an earlier aircraft the P47 had (Thunderbolt) and the Warthog.