Originally Posted by pilot64golfer

Its not a fetish. We flew the aircraft for over 30 years. We always called it the guppy. Shuttle was "shuttle guppy". Mainline was "mainline guppy". 737-200 was "Thunder guppy". We are certainly not the only airline to call it that.

Its just what we called it. Why call the 777 the "Triple seven"? Why not the seven seven seven? We don't usually call the 747 the Whale. We call it the "400" because we used to have the 747-100 and 200 that were the "ropestart".

Its certainly NOT an insult, but its amazing how many pilots get all upset when we call the airplane a guppy.

I've never heard an airbus pilot get upset for falling the airbus "The Bus".