Airline call signs
Jan 29, 2005 | 9:44 pm
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Airline call signs
It's nice we don't get too quickly dinged by the mods for off-topic, 'cause my tail would be fried by this one. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/hub/A698231 is a list of airline call signs. I'm not sure it's too authoritative - e.g they list speedbird for BA, and afiak they only used that for Concorde, but maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, nothing to do with OW, but this being a semi hotbed of aviation interests I thought some of you might be amused.
Jan 30, 2005 | 4:19 am
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I believe that the term Speedbird pre-dates Concorde by many years. It's the name of the logo that BOAC used (was a stylized bird in flight) and was retained when BOAC and BEA (and others?) came together to form BA.
(There was also an old airplane named Speedbird, but I dunno if that's related.)
(There was also an old airplane named Speedbird, but I dunno if that's related.)
Jan 30, 2005 | 10:28 pm
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I have actually heard this on the scanner, ATC gave taxi clearance to "Birdseed 10" - he quickly corrected himself.
As for off-topic, this is nothing compared to what we get up to in another forum.
Dave
As for off-topic, this is nothing compared to what we get up to in another forum.
Dave