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Old Mar 3, 2019, 5:41 am
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hemschmall
 
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Originally Posted by jdsworld
I wasn't born when BA was born but, and this is just my own curiosity, how was/are BOAC and BEA pronounced? I think I read somewhere that BOAC was spelled out, as opposed to being pronounced 'BO-AC', but was BEA also spelled out, or pronounced as 'BEE'?
Originally Posted by Trent900
Bealine.
Bealine was the callsign. BEA was spelled out B - E - A.

BOAC was officially B - O - A - C, but Bo-ac was informally used by some.
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