Waarom de vliegende badkuip de bijnaam van een "snorhaar" gekregen heeft Lees verder op de link hieronder...
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/20 ... ite-pilots
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/20 ... ite-pilotsIt's Viper for the F-16,
Warthog for the A-10,
Moose for the C-17,
Rhino for the F-4, and the list goes on.
The USAF, along with the other services, have long histories of giving their combat aircraft new names,
oftentimes of the animal kingdom variety,
after the planes had already received their official monikers.
This was near certain to be the case for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
once it was assigned the less than thrilling official name of Lightning II.
Now it's become clear that a new name has caught on
for the stealth jet among the top echelons the USAF's F-35 cadre,
and that nickname is 'Panther.'
F-35 piloten zijn dus nu "panter temmers".