N1k called a niki

[Fastbikkel]

Another one.

I couldn't live with the word Zeke.
I figured it was some plane that is not in AH.
But it is the zero!?!
Why call it Zeke when it is called Zero. It's the same ammount of letters.

I never use Zeke, i think it's dumb. Zero is much more distinct for me.


Good threat.

[Mathman]

Fast,

In WW2, the US used codenames for the Japanese planes.  Fighters were given male names (i.e. Zeke for A6M and George for N1K) and bombers/patrol planes and the like were given female names (such as Kate for B5N or Judy for D4Y).  The reason for this was mainly that it made plane identification easier and the US had little information on the Japanese planes.

There is a modern equivalent.  NATO calls Russian planes by other names.  Flanker, Fulcrum, Flogger, etc...

[flakbait]

Grimm,

Chog, like niki, is radio-buffer short hand. Chog is just short for C model Hog. Lanc is short for Lancaster, Jug is short for P-47, mudstain is....not short but a nice insult to any Pony driver. I use it to describe the modern variant of a similarly-named Ford car too.   You get used to it after a while, or at least most people do.

"Niki" drives Pyro crazy, so if you see him in the arena throw a call out on Channel 1: "Guys! Pyro's in the niki!!". Just cause he's workin at HTC doesn't mean you can't give him a ribbing every now and then!  


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Flakbait [Delta6]
Delta Six's Flight School
Put the P-61B in Aces High
"For yay did the sky darken, and split open and spew forth fire, and
through the smoke rode the Four Wurgers of the Apocalypse.
And on their canopies was tattooed the number of the Beast, and the
number was 190." Jedi, Verse Five, Capter Two, The Book of Dweeb
 

[EDO43]

NATO refers to Russian Fighters as Flanker, Fulcrum, Flagon, etc.  Russian bombers are referred to by names like Bear, Bison, etc.  You may already know this but for those who don't, notice that all the fighters start with the letter "f" and all the bombers start with the letter "b".  I have no idea what NATO refers to Russian recce planes as.

Not all zeros are called zekes.  The A6M3 model 32 (clipped wing version) is code named Hamp.  The floatplane version is codenamed rufe.  I can't remember  if there was another name for the A6M5 series zero or not but I'm thinking that it was just referred to as a zero.  

[AKSWulfe]

N1K2 going into hyper-drive flight
-SW

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Originally posted by Staga:
BTW Finns used a word "Mersu" for Me-109 'cause its easier to pronounce than Messerschmitt. "Mersu" is also a slang-word for Mercedes-Benz cars here.
Another one was "Pylly-Waltteri" (Butt-Walther) for Brewster Buffalo.

Edit: Forgot H from Messerschmitt...

[ 08-30-2001: Message edited by: Staga ]

It's Merco for the Frenchs (Mercedes - Benz).
And the SU25 is the
Frog Foot  

[ 08-31-2001: Message edited by: SFRT - Frenchy ]

[Karnak]

Keep in  ind that most US pilots still called them Zeros, regardless of what our official name for them was.  The Zero was the one Japanese aircraft that we knew the Japanese name for, and it was a simple, easy to remember name.  I think Zeke gets used more in AH by far than it was in WWII combat.

[juzz]

"Following limited service in Japan, the A6M3s were deployed to the New Guinea/Solomons area in the late spring of 1942 in preparation for the invasion of Australia. Initially, the Allies thought that the A6M3 was an entirely new fighter because of its squared-off wingtips, and Capt. Frank McCoy's team at the Directorate of Intelligence of the Allied Air Forces, Southwest Pacific Area, assigned it the code name HAP, after the nickname of General Henry Arnold, the USAAF's Chief of Staff. The General was not amused, and had Capt. McCoy called onto the carpet to explain just what he was up to. Capt McCoy seems to have survived this particular episode, but the code name of the new square-winged fighter was quietly changed to HAMP. When Allied intelligence finally recognized that the aircraft was not a new design but was actually a modified version of the ZEKE, it was renamed ZEKE 32."

From J.Baugher's A6M article here: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_other/a6m.html

[2Late4U]

Originally posted by Grimm:
The one I hate is Chog.  

I dont believe Corsairs ever went by Chog, Hog maybe and a few others, but never Chog.

I confess after hearing Niki enough I will use it sometimes, but I dont like too.

Crazy thing is for some reason, my brain doesn't see Chog as a word, but rather C-Hog (ie see-hog).  I have no Idea why, prob has something to due with seeing Dhog for so long and not being ablt to pronounce it "DOG"
 

[bigUC]

I call the n1k-2j/niki veeery nasty things when i'm alone in the room (ex: jaevla ufo/ helvetes idiotfly   ).  I don't care if it's called niki, in my vocabulary (limited) it's already listed as a four-letter word.  BTW, calling the b-17 "bit" was cool - i'm gonna do that!

[john9001]

nicknames must be earned not invented

the "jeep" was named General Purpose Vehicle or GP for short, which the GI's soon pronounced "jeep", by the way GI stands for Goverment Issue.
"buff", slang for bomber, comes from the B-52 and means "big ugly fat f***er

[-ammo-]

I know that the term "niki" is a real peave to pyro

[-tronski-]

MR SULU...Care factor zero

 Tronsky

[AN]

Nik never bothered me too much.

I find CHog and DHog fairly annoying.

But at least we don't have the P-38J with everyone running around calling it the 'PJ'.

anRky

[Pyro]

"Niki" sounds like the stage name of a stripper, not a plane.