Originally Posted by
treadigraph
"Queen Nan How" has stuck in my memory from reading something I guess - I know a Nevil Shute book - A Town Like Alice? - had similar phonetic alphabet renditions for the daily outback radio comms which was part of the plot.
(A is for 'orses, B for mutton...)
Slight tread drift... A couple of Shute's novels include radio comms, both the aeronautical variety and the outback version. He manages to avoid mentioning aircraft call signs in most of his books that deal with aviation, but when a call sign does get mentioned it is usually in the 1942-1955 RAF phonetic alphabet. Same for the outback communications if I'm not mistaken. So Queen Nan How may well have turned up in one of his books. His own Percival Proctor V that was used for his UK-Australia flight was known as 'Item Willie" (G-AKIW).