The September 1990 issue of Air Force Magazine had an article entitled 
"What They Really Called Them" which had a large number of unofficial 
names for aircraft.  Here are some of my favorites:

B-52  BUFF (Big Ugly Fat ..... Fellow)
A-7   SLUF (Short Little Ugly  ..... Fellow)
B-66  Sooie! (It was a hog on takeoff)
F-16  Lawn Dart, Viper, Electric Jet, Little Hummer
F-105 Lead Sled, Squash Bomber (if all else failed, turn off the engine and
      squash the target)
AC-47 Puff the Magic Dragon, Spooky, Dragon
F-111 Aardvark, Switchblade, Widow-Maker, Flying Edsel, Swinger
EF-111 Sparkvark
B-1   Bone (from B-one)
C-141 T-Tailed Mountain Magnet
T-37  Converter (converts fuel into noise)
B-26  Flying Prostitute (it had no visible means of support)
F-104 Missile with a Man in It
A-10  SLAT (Slow, Low, Aerial Target)
C-5   Fat Albert
O-2   Duck (from the way the landing gear folds), Suck and Blow (from the push, pull 
       engine arrangements)
AV-8  Scarier

And for F-117 fans: The Black Jet, Nighthawk, Frisbee, F-19 (Wobbly Goblin is 
purely a media creation)

Enough for now.

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