When ' Air 2 Bob ' [ 2000 ] started , chaos around France / Spain ATC .
'' Air , two thousand , four , zero , tree , sixer , request '' .
ATC ' who ist calling ? '
We all breathed a sigh of relief when they changed to Jetset !
12 Jan 1975 , Shuttle started on LHR GLA LHR , SHT 7 Lima soon got slurred to SHT Semolina , and 7 Uniform to 7-Up . Others escape memory . Seem to remember back up flights were SHT Papa Lima [ G-ARPL ] , etc . Although if Mainline's sole T1E [ brought backfrom Cyprus after the war ] was on back up duty c/s slipped to SHT Mr Wu [ G-ASWU ] .
Yes , we too cringed at the use of ''The Speedbird '' .
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