Blackdog... or should that be...
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Blackdog... or should that be...
This amused me...
Methinks this is a reference to a politically incorrectly named dog...
Tim
CONTROL AND REPORTING CENTRE (CRC) SCAMPTON IS CO-LOCATED WITH RAF SCAMPTON ATC UNIT. TO AVOID CONFUSION OVER CALLSIGNS, CRC SCAMPTON HAS BEEN ALLOCATED THE CALLSIGN BLACKDOG.
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Isn't Blackdog the name that Winston Churchill used to give to his bouts of depression?
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It was as long ago as 1984 when the non-PC formation call-sign was replaced by the PC version. This happened following an airfield attack during the TACEVAL at Upper Heyford when, if I remember correctly, someone from the thought police made a complaint through HQ 3rd Air Force. And that was the end of that.
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Wasn't Guy Gibsons dog a black labrador called "Nigger". It was killed by a car the day before the Dams raid and buried at Scampton at the time of the raid.
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Doh, just re-read first post silly me!
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Doh, just re-read first post silly me!
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TO AVOID CONFUSION OVER CALLSIGNS
Any others out there?
FFF
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