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I'm trying to compile a list of the more, shall we say, unflattering
descriptions that have been applied to various aircraft over the years.
Does anyone know any good ones? The short list I've been able to recall
myself goes something like this ... sources omitted to protect the
guilty :-)

Buccaneer : "The Banana Bomber." (The prototype was given the codename ARNA
(A Royal Navy Aircraft), and "Blackburn ARNA" soon became "Black Banana".)

E-3 Sentry : "A Boeing 707 being raped by a flying saucer."

F-4 Phantom : "So ugly I thought they'd delivered it upside down."

F-15 Eagle : "Living proof of the American theory that even a brick will
fly if you hang enough engines on it."

F-104 Starfighter : "A missile with a man in it."

F-117 : "The first aircraft designed by electrical engineers."

Mitsubishi G4M : "The one-shot lighter." (A Japanese bomber of WW2, with a
habit of catching fire at the slightest provocation.)

Tu-95 Bear : "A triumph of brute force over the laws of aerodynamics."

Any more? (The above are all military planes, but I'm interested in civilian
examples too.)

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