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Post by resistor1 on Mar 10, 2013 4:52:32 GMT 9
Ok SIX maintainers do you all remember the A/C Call Signs you used at your Squadron? At Dover AFB called " Dover Tower Echo Lima 10 radio check". Also our Electronics Truck was "Resistor 1 ". 
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Post by Mark O on Mar 10, 2013 11:52:15 GMT 9
Ok SIX maintainers do you all remember the A/C Call Signs you used at your Squadron? At Dover AFB called " Dover Tower Echo Lima 10 radio check". Also our Electronics Truck was "Resistor 1 ". When I was a crew chief on tankers the Crew Chief Expeditor was "5", and the Specialist Expeditor was "7." Since the E&E guys were specialists, they were in the "7" truck. In big units each AMU had it's own name, so at Grand Forks for example we had "Viking", and "Knight." (I was a "Viking 5" for some time!) The Pro Super was just "Viking Super", or "Knight Super." I can't remember what name they used here at Dyess, but the number system was the same. As I recall the squadron commander of the AGS, or AMXS was "Maintenance 1", and the other numbers were used down to the Chief. "6" was the extra crew chief truck, and "8" was the extra specialist truck, but were rarely used. It was always, "I have an E&E red ball. Call Viking 7", or "5" if you needed the crew chief. I honestly don't remember what we used when I was on the flight line in Tennessee, or Ohio. Probably just our first names! |
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Post by jimpadgett on Mar 10, 2013 23:04:47 GMT 9
318th FIS sixes used Lima Kilo at McChord.
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Post by LBer1568 on Mar 10, 2013 23:53:46 GMT 9
monitoringtimes.com/MilitaryCallsignList-APR09.pdfBack when six's flew we had a two alpha A/C call sign followed by last digits of A/C serial number. We had placards on instrument panel with call-sign. If I remember right it was labled Radio callsign. Today's AF uses unique names for each squadron and some are repeated or duplicated. The link is a list of many of teh unit designator's.
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Post by Mark O on Mar 11, 2013 1:53:53 GMT 9
I thought we were talking about the callsigns used by maintenance?
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Mar 11, 2013 3:29:43 GMT 9
When I was at Nellis, on F-105s, and at Minot, on F-106s, I had a runup and taxi license.
That was from 1961 to 1967.
When I was ready to taxi, I called either Nellis/Minot Ground Control or Nellis/Minot Tower and gave them the Call Sign.
That was true at both bases.
At night, Ground Control was not normally manned, except for exercises or a bunch of scheduled night flying.
So, at night I just talked to the Control Tower.
Yes, the airplane call sign was on the instrument panel.
I guess the idea was to keep everything simple.
At Minot they knew it was a Six by the call sign.
At Nellis we had to tell them the type of airplane.
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Post by burnsracing on Apr 20, 2013 9:51:39 GMT 9
At McGuire, when we called for a radio check the call sign was Juliet Golf and the A/C number, "McGuire tower this is Juliet golf 468 requesting radio check".
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