Only marginally related to beer, the U.S. Army calls one of their spy drones the “Flying Beer Keg.” Technically a “Micro Air Vehicle” developed by Honeywell, it’s official name is the “T-Hawk.” According to an article in Wired, the pentagon is shutting it down because “it didn’t fly as smoothly as the Pentagon would have liked” and also because it was “known for its loud noise when flying.” Apparently, though, the Miami-Dade Police Force bought two of them to “fight crime.”
Frankly, I don’t think it looks that much like a beer keg. What do you think?
Looks like one of those hats with the beer cans on the side. For RoboCop.
Flying hockey puck? Mushroom cap?
Looks like the Probot that Han Solo destroys in Empire Strikes Back!
Explaining (maybe) the nickname’s origin, based on working (as a civilain) for US Navy for 25 yrs, & spending time in bars on various military bases – I think some “flyboy” was the dubber:
The “toy” somewhat resembles the modern “pony’ keg that the macros use. “Flyboy” bars exist on big bases, & most are small. Side-side storage space is no different for 1/2 or 1/4 keg, but in the slow times when the sqaudrons are deployed elsewhere, the bar managers use ponies to keep the beer fresh for the wives & other civilians who have access. A “flyboy” somewhere (most likely in FL) who’d seen a few ponies at frat parties/elsewhere clicked on the nickname, which couldn’t help but stick.
Other possible is that one of the designers/builders beat the flyboys to it – whatever, the nickname is a bit of a stretch.