coolest "name" for aircraft

[Voyager]

Originally Posted by Doktorwzzerd

I think some of the NATO reporting names for Soviet aircraft are pretty funny, the SU-27 Frogfoot being my fav. I've even read that a lot of Soviet pilots took offense to many of the those NATO names, the MiG-21 "Fishbed" particularly drawing the pilot's ire as it was their premier fighter in the early to mid 60's.

The MiG-15's was probably the worst though. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader, as I'm pretty sure you can't post that here.

On the other hand, Flanker is an awesome name. Fulcrum is not bad either.

Fun little trivia about the F4H Phantom II. Given the naming conventions that McDonnell used at the time, the project manager had originally wanted to name is Satan, but the name was considered to controversial at the time. Apparently, one of the other names proposed was Mithras, the Persian god of light. linky