Worst airplane name

R.J. Mitchell wanted to call his new design the "Shrew" - - - thankfully one of the worst ever names for a fighter aircraft was avoided and Supermarine selected possibly the best, "Spitfire" !

The NATO code name for the MIG-15 was the "f-a-g-o-t".

And in the beggining the F-16 earned the moniker of "lawn dart"

Very unsexy names for figher jets

I don't think I'd be happy flying an airplane called a Nimrod

or tell everyone ,im flying in a Funk

gotta say that i'm not that impressed with Cessna renaming the Columbia---> Corvalis? ewww...

Imagine all the meetings that took place at Cessna to come up with, wait for it, Corvalis.  Sounds like a bland Japanese import. Why did they abandon the classic Cessna formula, "Sky.......".   They stuck with it for the Skycatcher which is a good, memorable name.

At my home airport they operate a German manufactured LSA "Ikarus CA". I don't know that it is a great name.

Now, in my mind, "Icarus" had good climb performance, but some structural integrity problems in certain ambient conditions.

Nonetheless, they are flying it constantly, I don't know how many new pilots it has produced, so I guess it's OK.

(I still think I'd schedule my time very early or very late in the day on sunny days!)

seems the Fokker puts a sour note in my mind.  sounds like another meaning if you know what I mean.

 Generally I like de Havilland's use of the Moth concept - Tiger Moth, Gipsy Moth, Fox Moth........but the DH.80A "Puss Moth" has to be the worst!

"Yeah, that my Puss Moth over there" just doesn't sound good.

I heard Burt Rutan at a Forum at Airventure a few years back ask the question; "Why anyone would want to name an aircraft after something that brings darkness over the earth?"  .....Eclipse.

Burt Rutan can't throw stones having cursed an entire generation of copy-editors and Museum label-writers with the VariEze and Long-EZ !

On the subject of Burt Rutan, I have to admit I dislike the name "SpaceShipOne".  Although very practical, it's just not very inspiring. 

I agree, Zack. 

SpaceShipTwo, however, now THAT'S a name!

LOL. Rutan has contributed almost as much to flight as anyone else, but he cannot name airplanes. Catbird, anyone? What the heck is a catbird, anyway?

Sopwith Snail, anyone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Snail

  Well, not a particular aircraft name, but a manufacturers name- Fairey

Be even worse if it was a typo

I'm surprised noone has mentioned perhaps the most popular of homebuilts. RV has to be one of the weakest names.

While RV may be uninspired (as are all initials...), it's better than having a VanGrunsven-3, VaGrunsven-4, etc...