Cool callsign
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From: Germany
Everyone at EDLV had a laugh when V-Bird (May god rest their souls!) announced their selection of "Veebee" as their callsign.
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Lots of vibis available here: http://shop.beate-uhse.com ...
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From: Hants, UK
Further on the Lego Callsign:
I was in a flippant mood one day and the Lego Excel was outbound to Billund from the UK. Another crew queried the Lego callsign. Comments about the Captain having a fixed smile, moustache and a yellow face were bandied about. To his credit, he piped up:
"Do you like our plane? We built it ourself!"
A colleague of mine always wondered when the call would come;
"Lego 1 Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, the Captain's head has fallen off and rolled under the seat!"
Other US Military Callsigns spotted on Radar:
'Grim' in formation with 'Reaper'
I was in a flippant mood one day and the Lego Excel was outbound to Billund from the UK. Another crew queried the Lego callsign. Comments about the Captain having a fixed smile, moustache and a yellow face were bandied about. To his credit, he piped up:
"Do you like our plane? We built it ourself!"
A colleague of mine always wondered when the call would come;
"Lego 1 Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, the Captain's head has fallen off and rolled under the seat!"
Other US Military Callsigns spotted on Radar:
'Grim' in formation with 'Reaper'
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From: London (Babylon-on-Thames)
Back in 1987 at Prestwick we had a one 747 outfit called Highland Express and their callsign was "Tartan." Anyway, after a fortnight of ops, for some reason it was revoked and they had to use the aircraft reg, "G-HIHO" which became "Golf-Heigh-Ho" half the time.
Happy days...
Happy days...
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From: 30 West
The Police callsign should be Muppet - after all they had
'Pigs in Space' !
The scariest one at present is 'Reach'
You know they are either going to ask for a relay because their HF is down, don't know how to get an oceanic clearance or block 123.45 with irrelevant banter
'Pigs in Space' !
The scariest one at present is 'Reach'
You know they are either going to ask for a relay because their HF is down, don't know how to get an oceanic clearance or block 123.45 with irrelevant banter
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From: North Wales
OVC002 -- Sob Story was (still is?) a military air-ground station in Greenland 6511N 4350W. It was an FIS relay in 1972 and I seem to remember it was later upgraded to a radar station. The name intrigued me as well, probably just a Cold War code name.
