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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 February 2025. Letter names for unambiguous communication Not to be confused with International Phonetic Alphabet. Alphabetic code words A lfa N ovember B ravo O scar C harlie P apa D elta Q uebec E cho R omeo F oxtrot S ierra G olf T ango H otel U niform I ndia V ictor J uliett W hiskey K ilo X ray L ...
ICAO code in use by another company, call sign no longer allocated BRS Brazilian Air Force: BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE Brazil TH BRT British Regional Airlines: BRITISH United Kingdom defunct B2 BRU Belavia Belarusian Airlines BELARUS AVIA Belarus BRV Bravo Air Congo: BRAVO Democratic Republic of the Congo defunct BRW Bright Aviation Services: BRIGHT ...
Also, companies often have the letter they are designated by ('A', 'B', 'C' or 'D') be the first letter of their call sign. This means a 'C' Company could potentially have 'Checkmate' as its call sign. One specific call sign used Army wide is DUSTOFF, dating back to the first dedicated Air Ambulance unit in Vietnam. Fixed call signs for the ...
The Hal Jordan version of the DC Comics character Green Lantern, introduced in 1959, was a US Air Force pilot and test pilot with the call sign "Highball". [ 6 ] The Marvel Comics character Corsair, space-faring father to X-Men characters Scott Summers and Alex Summers , got his alias from his call sign from his time as a US Air Force pilot.
I would go so far as to suggest moving it back to Call sign or Callsign-- it's a more general term (call letters being a special case of call signs; not all call signs are call letters per se). Call letters should be a redirect -- I tried to make the move myself but got caught up in a morass of redirects. Haikupoet 04:15, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
The force comprised HQ Company 25th Marines, 3/25 Marines, Co E, 4th Reconnaissance Battalion, and 1st Battalion, 14th Marines (artillery, composed of HQ, Alpha, and Bravo Batteries). [29] Battle Griffin 93; Battle Griffin 96. [30] Beacon Flash – U.S.-Oman dissimilar air combat exercise going back to the 1970s. [30]
KTLA, KFWB, KTTV, KNX — you know the call letters of local radio and TV stations and probably have a jingle or two stuck in your head. But where did this broadcasting alphabet soup originate?
The letter progresses through the alphabet with every update and starts at alpha after a break in service of twelve hours or more. When contacting the local control unit, pilots indicate their information <letter>, where <letter> is the ATIS identification letter of the ATIS transmission the pilot received. This helps the ATC controller verify ...