Names for your Mooneys?

[Sue Bon]

Do you all have names for your airplanes? @hubcap's is called Myrtle, which is just awesome.

Mine is named Mooby Mooky, which the previous owner named her and I think fits well.

[Ragsf15e]

Ours is Mimi!  M seems to be a popular letter!  

[EricJ]

Drama Queen, bestowed on her by a friend during all the craziness that happened during the purchase process.

[A64Pilot]

Mooney doesn’t have a name.

‘But the stupid robot vacuum does, it’s called A$$hole, because I’m way past being annoyed by that thing

[Sue Bon]

4 minutes ago, A64Pilot said:

Mooney doesn’t have a name.

‘But the stupid robot vacuum does, it’s called A$$hole, because I’m way past being annoyed by that thing

I took mine to the recycling center. I couldn't take its shenanigans either.

[A64Pilot]

23 minutes ago, Sue Bon said:

I took mine to the recycling center. I couldn't take its shenanigans either.

Daughter gave us the thing, unfortunately that’s not an option

[mike_elliott]

1 minute ago, A64Pilot said:

Daughter gave us the thing, unfortunately that’s not an option

have you tried to quiet it down with some pecussive maintanence?

[N201MKTurbo]

My wife told me its first name is Mike and its last name is Kilo, at least that's what you tell all the controllers its name is.

My old Mooney was called Mr. Mooney

I don't know why I have boy Mooneys, most people have girl Mooneys. My wife says I have an unnatural relationship with my airplane. But, its OK in June.

[A64Pilot]

11 minutes ago, mike_elliott said:

have you tried to quiet it down with some pecussive maintanence?

I don’t mind the noise, it’s that it gets stuck on the Damnest things, finds “cliffs” that aren’t there and even sometimes gets ‘stuck” sitting there in the middle of the floor.

It’s fascinated by the sliding door track, won’t leave that area alone, isn’t happy until it drops a wheel into the track, and yes gets stuck.

Little dog is good, he almost never has an “accident” but did once, let me tell you by the time the robot vacuum was done with that it was worse than if someone slaughtered something in that room, it smeared it all over the room and I had to completely disassemble it in the sink scrubbing everything with a toothbrush to get it so it didn’t drive around distributing that stench, it sucks in and blows out a lot of air, coat it’s insides with dog crap and you can imagine the aroma.

Great concept, terrible execution

 

Edited June 29, 2023 by A64Pilot

[Sue Bon]

11 minutes ago, N201MKTurbo said:

My wife says I have an unnatural relationship with my airplane.

I don't have a wife, but I hear this from many, many other people!

[ilovecornfields]

Mine is Perry. My son said he named him that after the peregrine falcon because that was the fastest bird and the Ovation was the fastest production plane (NA piston single, technically). Then I asked him if he was actually named after Perry the Platypus and he reluctantly admitted he was. Either way, good name. My son got into a habit of patting him on the nose and thanking him after every flight which I still find extremely adorable.

[A64Pilot]

1 hour ago, ilovecornfields said:

Mine is Perry. My son said he named him that after the peregrine falcon because that was the fastest bird and the Ovation was the fastest production plane (NA piston single, technically). Then I asked him if he was actually named after Perry the Platypus and he reluctantly admitted he was. Either way, good name. My son got into a habit of patting him on the nose and thanking him after every flight which I still find extremely adorable.

You laugh but every time I came back from a mission I would pat the TADS on the Apache and thank it for bringing me home.

I do that occasionally on the spinner of the Mooney, but not so much

[Sue Bon]

22 minutes ago, A64Pilot said:

You laugh but every time I came back from a mission I would pat the TADS on the Apache and thank it for bringing me home.

I do that occasionally on the spinner of the Mooney, but not so much

I almost always give the spinner a little hug and thank her.

[Sue Bon]

1 hour ago, A64Pilot said:

I would pat the TADS on the Apache and thank it for bringing me home.

So your Apache was non-binary? We've currently got a 4/2 split with female/male Mooneys....

[Rick Junkin]

Our Bravo is affectionately “The Beast”, named by one of my favorite mechanics and immortalized in vinyl on the vertical stab.

She is my mistress with my wife Glennie’s complete approval.

Cheers,
Rick

[eman1200]

Grasshopper. Because that was my first passenger the day I bought my plane.

[A64Pilot]

4 hours ago, Sue Bon said:

So your Apache was non-binary? We've currently got a 4/2 split with female/male Mooneys....

I don’t honestly know what non binary is.

Many thought of theirs as female, I honestly just never thought of it as anything except a machine. It really is quite an ugly thing, hard to think of it as female.

 

[Hank]

42 minutes ago, A64Pilot said:

I don’t honestly know what non binary is.

That's someone who "identifies" as one of the several dozen genders that are not either Male or Female.

Must be nice to enjoy social isolation for so long!!

[McMooney]

Wife named her Birdy

[hubcap]

Just for the record, my wife doesn’t like it when I tell her I am going to the airport to rub Myrtle’s tummy and give her a bath.

[C.J.]

"Plane Jane" is her current name. If I ever decide to repaint her, she'll become "Not So Plane (or Plain) Jane".

[kortopates]

I don’t honestly know what non binary is.
Many thought of theirs as female, I honestly just never thought of it as anything except a machine. It really is quite an ugly thing, hard to think of it as female.
 

Your ugly comment reminded me of a Mooney owner from many many years ago. He named his Mooney C model something like BUM for Butt Ugly Mooney and it really was. But it gained some notoriety after flying across the pond both ways on a rather spur of the moment trip for a conference. He was Russian and wrote a story about it. Some of you old time Mooney owners will remember - the Viking Route.
He was also the king of the CB’s.


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[Hank]

7 hours ago, kortopates said:

. . . reminded me of a Mooney owner from many many years ago. He named his Mooney C model something like BUM for Butt Ugly Mooney and it really was. But it gained some notoriety after flying across the pond both ways on a rather spur of the moment trip for a conference. He was Russian and wrote a story about it. Some of you old time Mooney owners will remember - the Viking Route.
He was also the king of the CB’s.

Yuri was before my time . . . His descriptions of his C are almost frightening, making me appreciate the previous owners of my own C much more!

While it sounds quite interesting, I don't see myself following the Viking Route to Europe. Delta is much quicker, and Princess is much, much more relaxing.  

[kortopates]

Yuri was before my time . . . His descriptions of his C are almost frightening, making me appreciate the previous owners of my own C much more!
While it sounds quite interesting, I don't see myself following the Viking Route to Europe. Delta is much quicker, and Princess is much, much more relaxing.  

You have to be an Adventure Pilot to understand the appeal. Doing it in a C model made it even more adventurous and challenging.


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[gmonnig]

My plane's name is Wayne Rooney the Mooney but I have also called it Moon Moon (after the stupid Moon Moon Wolf memes). I do thank it after every flight for getting my family/friends safely back to earth though.