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Old 13th August 2003 | 15:38
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LEM
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QFE

In the beginning, when HD was still a child, the phonetic alphabet in use was the american one, and it sounded a lot different:
A was Able, B was Baker, Lufthansa was LOVE/UNCLE/FOX/TARE/HOW/ABLE/NAN/SUGAR/ABLE.

Everything seemed to work fine until foreign crews, bound for the UK, started to request, with false innocence, the QFE.

That sounded: QUEEN FOX EASY!
Amazing, but that is the reason why ICAO was urged to find another alphabet, the one we know today.

So the Queen's virtue is no lorger in doubt.
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