jdd sur free wrote:
Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:04:40 +0200 Anders Johansson <andjoh@rydsbo.net> 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/