Blast from the Past

[FrankPilot]

I enjoyed this. Lots of vintage planes and other stuff. You might enjoy too. Cheers.

 

 

[johnm]

16.51 ......................... when did they change O - oboe to oscar ?

[440032]

1956 or so I think, after the Korean war.

OBOE was also bad for dyslexics. My teachers used to say that due to my dyslexia, I'd never be good a poetry, but look at me now, I just made a beautiful vase and an ashtray!

[FrankPilot]

49 minutes ago, 440032 said:

My teachers used to say that due to my dyslexia, I'd never be good a poetry, but look at me now, I just made a beautiful vase and an ashtray!

You made my wife laugh her head off! Cheers.😂😂😂

[sfGnome]

On the topic of the phonetic alphabet, I was asked recently to provide a list of the phonetic alphabet for a group of people who were going to be using radios to control a sports event, and I got in trouble from one of the organisers claiming that I’d misspelled ’juliett’. On further investigation, I found that the extra ‘t’ was added so that French-speaking people didn’t pronounce it ‘juli-ay’. 

[FrankPilot]

1 hour ago, johnm said:

16.51 ......................... when did they change O - oboe to oscar ?

440033 is correct. Lots of interesting stuff here that I never knew:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_military_phonetic_spelling_alphabets
Cheers.

[facthunter]

It was originally ABLE BAKER CHARLIE  DOG. Nev