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Northwest Arkansas
Was looking at some cool old airplane logs and other stuff that was laying around this morning. This nifty 1944 guide from Hamilton Standard has some real gems!
Used that phonetic alphabet into the 50s in my early ham radio days!
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I get a chuckle out of the old Adam-12 reruns on TV--
amazing how many of the license plates they run a check on have Ida, Lincoln, Mary, and/or Nora in them!
One of the locals suggested that three syllable phonetics were counter-productive. I agree - I have an awful time with "November." Sierra should go back to "Sugar" and "Quilo" and "Kaybec" confuse me.
After flying for many years I enter the LE world. Most difficult part was learning the wrong alphabet: Adam, Boy, Charlie, David... The wrong way. I was told by a border patrol supervisor, if I couldn't remember the right word, to make one up and I got extra points if I could get dispatch to laugh. Teaching an old dog...
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