I have heard of, maybe, half a dozen more but the rest of the names don't mean anything to me. I guess either I haven't watched enough American war films or British news doesn't use the names of the planes as much as American news programmes must.
I got 22 and still only got 1 point. It's hard for me to believe that the majority on this site know so much about US military planes. I'm guessing most people (like me) who know little about the subject just skip this one. (Although, if my grandson was here he could ace it, so maybe there are a lot out there like him who dreamed of flying jets when they were young.)
Aren't these actually official service names? They're not nicknames. Nicknames are like bone (b-1 = b-one = bone) an actual nickname. Rather than Lancer which was the official service name.
Another example is the B-52 Stratofortress (a relative told me that they called them BUFFs, ie Big Ugly Fat F***ers) and that it was a fairly common nickname for them.
If it was really nicknames they should accept "stealth fighter" for Nighthawk and "stealth bomber" for Spirit those names were much more commonly used by the public.
I have heard of, maybe, half a dozen more but the rest of the names don't mean anything to me. I guess either I haven't watched enough American war films or British news doesn't use the names of the planes as much as American news programmes must.
Another example is the B-52 Stratofortress (a relative told me that they called them BUFFs, ie Big Ugly Fat F***ers) and that it was a fairly common nickname for them.