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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jwt708, post: 2017142, member: 32619&quot;]You know me longnine009 - I always love a good mess token! I like it and appreciate the back story. I found some various nicknames for the A-1 beyond Able Dog:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Spad and Super Spad</p><p>the Destroyer / Hobo (radio call signs from the USAF)</p><p>Firefly (radio call sign from USAF)</p><p>Zorro (another radio call sign)</p><p>the Big Gun</p><p>Old Faithful</p><p>Old Miscellaneous</p><p>Fat Face (side-by-side seating variant)</p><p>Guppy</p><p>Q-Bird</p><p>Flying Dumptruck</p><p>Sandy (USAF call sign)</p><p>and the South Vietnamese nickname, Crazy Water Buffalo</p><p>(Wikipedia)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think my favorites are Fat Face and Old Miscellaneous</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Air Force has a history of choosing a nickname for aircraft that is never really adopted by the people that use them or maintain them. Some examples I can think of off the top of my head are the F-16 Fighting Falcon usually know as viper; the A-10 Thunderbolt II as the Warthog; B-52 Stratofortress as BUFF which means big ugly fat ****** (usually churched up to friend); B-1 as Bone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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