After last week’s Short Final, we had quite a few tongue-twisters in our submission box. If you have one – by all means, scroll down and click on the link to tell us!
Back in the early 1960s, I was a USAF F-101B Voodoo interceptor pilot flying out of the San Francisco Bay area. Every couple of months, we would have an exercise where friendly T-33 target aircraft with the callsigns “Brainbird Alpha,” “Brainbird Bravo,” “Brainbird Charlie,” etc. would sneak up on the base.
I got to fly the target one time, entering from Oregon over the Baker Beacon (an early ADF radio range). Passing over the beacon, I got to call the FAA and announce:
“Brainbird Bravo is over the Baker Beacon!”
George J. Marrett
