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[Stanley Long <slong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jdd sur free wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:04:40 +0200
> > Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I thought it was zebra, or is that just the armed forces?
> >
> > There is an international standard for phonetic codes used not only by
> > the military, but also used in aviation.
> > A-alpha
> > D-Delta
> > ...
> > Z-Zulu
> > Here is a web site that contains not only the international aviation,
> > but some of the other codes.
> >  http://morsecode.scphillips.com/alphabet.html
> alpha, bravo, charlie, delta, echo, Fox-trot, golf, hotel, india, 
> juliet, kilo, lima, mike, november, oscar, papa, quebec, romeo, sierra, 
> tango, uniform, victor, wyski, x-ray, yankee, zulu
>
> if I remember... I learnt this by heart when I was 10, after visiting an 
> airport control tower :-) (it was 50 years ago :-)
Before that there was able, baker, charlie dog ...
I learned that from a (then obsolete) US Navy pilot training book of 
1940 or '41 vintage that came to us from a used book store. Before 
airline pilots much flew the oceans, each language used local 
pronunciation without confusion.
International cooperation required changes.
There were several iterations of changes.

Google found http://www.bckelk.uklinux.net/able.html
and http://montgomery.cas.muohio.edu/meyersde/PhoneticAlphabets.htm
and http://www.faqs.org/faqs/radio/phonetic-alph/full/