Soon the plane was dubbed “Miss Piggy,” and it "became one of the nicest looking aircraft we had," according to Bast. Frith also came up with the idea to name the second plane Kermit since the ...

Bonnie Erickson designed and built the inimitable Miss Piggy in 1974 for an early "Muppets ... so it was a challenge to come up with something that was not going to talk down to their audience.