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Posted by bondoman on Saturday, June 23, 2012 12:36 PM

Hans von Hammer

 

 willieandjoe:

 

Do posts on this forum ever get removed?

 

 

There used to be a section called "Odd & Ends" for "model- stuff that didn't have a home", but it got 86'd because it was more a social forum and a couple of big flame-wars broke out.. The Admins at first started just locking and/or removing offending posts and throwing the occasional memeber in the stockade for a couple weeks, but the last flame-war got so hot the ol' Red Adair hisself wouldn't go near it...

And with millions of people dying,  the Admins took off and nuked the site from orbit... It was the only way to be sure..

 

That said, one can get away with skoshi-bit of "social" posting in this forum, but they best be modeling-related in one form or another somewhere...   

 

 

Happens to me with some regularity. AKA Forum "anger management".

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Saturday, June 23, 2012 11:48 AM

JOE RIX

I came up with "Indy". That's cool as I love auto racing.

That's not the mental picture I got when I read your call-sign.. I was thinkin'

 

which is what a call-sign should do. Conjur-up a mental image of the person "wearing" it, lol.. Pretty sure that far more people will come up with the above image for that call-sign than would come up with a race-car, lol..

Too bad about the guy that got "Hemoroid"...  That kinda mental image I can live without, lol.. Although, it would make a great name for a fighter... After 6-8 hours sittin' on a parachute seat-cushion in P-51 on it's way back from Berlin, well...

 I recall reading where one F-16 pilot wanted to be called "Iceman" so bad that he could taste it.. He wound up with "Slush" because nobody in the unit thought he was cool enough for "Iceman", lol.. (Rule # 1-Never pick your own call-sign)

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Saturday, June 23, 2012 11:36 AM

willieandjoe

Do posts on this forum ever get removed?

There used to be a section called "Odd & Ends" for "model- stuff that didn't have a home", but it got 86'd because it was more a social forum and a couple of big flame-wars broke out.. The Admins at first started just locking and/or removing offending posts and throwing the occasional memeber in the stockade for a couple weeks, but the last flame-war got so hot the ol' Red Adair hisself wouldn't go near it...

And with millions of people dying,  the Admins took off and nuked the site from orbit... It was the only way to be sure..

 

That said, one can get away with skoshi-bit of "social" posting in this forum, but they best be modeling-related in one form or another somewhere...   

 

 

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Posted by Medicman71 on Saturday, June 23, 2012 11:05 AM

This is model related in a way. It is about call signs that appear on the sides of aircraft that we build as models. See. There's the connection.

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Posted by castelnuovo on Friday, June 22, 2012 6:41 PM

Yes if they violate the rules such as "no non-modeling related fun".Whistling

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Friday, June 22, 2012 10:35 AM

I've posted modeling-stuff in it..

 

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Posted by castelnuovo on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:44 PM

Hey, it is Wed. evening on the Pacific coast and this non-modeling related post is still here YesYes. Maybe the rules have been relaxed a bit...Smile

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Posted by Medicman71 on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 9:51 AM

masonme2

How the hell did I get "cowbell"' I can't even think up how it came up with that one!

Maybe cause you need more of it!!!

Building- (All 1/48) F-14A Tomcat, F-16C Blk 30, He 129

 

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Posted by JOE RIX on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 6:21 PM

ruddratt

"Bronco" ..... not bad, except if one happens to be a Raider's fan (like I am). Black Eye

Now that's some Kharma there. (From your die hard Bronco fan)

                                             Joe

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Posted by JOE RIX on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 6:19 PM

I came up with "Indy". That's cool as I love auto racing.

"Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did". George Carlin

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Posted by bondoman on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 5:51 PM

VanceCrozier

 

 p38jl:

 

 

 VanceCrozier:

 

 

 p38jl:

lol. I got..

Lt. christopher 'Wizzard' holmes
more real life nicknames.. "Chief ".. and the lil ones call me .. Uncle Chief...

 

 

 I guess "Sherlock" was either too obvious, or covered by copyright...

 

et Tu Dr Watson ??..Whistling

 

 

 

Doc Watson would have to be your RIO / navigator etc...

And that would NOT be a good thing. The singer, that is...

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Posted by masonme2 on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 2:25 PM

How the hell did I get "cowbell"' I can't even think up how it came up with that one!

"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock"   Will Rogers

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Posted by VanceCrozier on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 1:30 PM

p38jl

 

 VanceCrozier:

 

 

 p38jl:

lol. I got..

Lt. christopher 'Wizzard' holmes
more real life nicknames.. "Chief ".. and the lil ones call me .. Uncle Chief...

 

 

 I guess "Sherlock" was either too obvious, or covered by copyright...

 

et Tu Dr Watson ??..Whistling

 

Doc Watson would have to be your RIO / navigator etc...

On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 1:20 PM

Hmmmmmm...on my second try I got "Troll"...

Then "Rough Rider" on my third...

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Posted by p38jl on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 1:09 PM

VanceCrozier

 p38jl:

lol. I got..

Lt. christopher 'Wizzard' holmes
more real life nicknames.. "Chief ".. and the lil ones call me .. Uncle Chief...

 

 I guess "Sherlock" was either too obvious, or covered by copyright...

et Tu Dr Watson ??..Whistling

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Posted by VanceCrozier on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:58 PM

p38jl

lol. I got..

Lt. christopher 'Wizzard' holmes
more real life nicknames.. "Chief ".. and the lil ones call me .. Uncle Chief...

 I guess "Sherlock" was either too obvious, or covered by copyright...

On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister

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Posted by carsanab on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:09 PM

just a thought....has anyone claimed....

CUPCAKE?????? Whistling

especially if you sit in the second row....

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 8:59 AM

Gamera

 

 Hans von Hammer:

 

Well, I hope it doesn't get nuked, because I at least, am getting some good info for potential call-signs to paint or decal onto canopy-rails...  

 

 

 

 

Good idea Hans but I ain't painting 'Hemroid' on the side on any of my models No

Hmm.....paint "Stealth" in bright neon orange letters on an F-117...................Whistling

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Posted by p38jl on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 8:55 AM

lol. I got..

Lt. christopher 'Wizzard' holmes
more real life nicknames.. "Chief ".. and the lil ones call me .. Uncle Chief...

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Posted by Gamera on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 7:51 AM

Hans von Hammer

Well, I hope it doesn't get nuked, because I at least, am getting some good info for potential call-signs to paint or decal onto canopy-rails...  

 

 

Good idea Hans but I ain't painting 'Hemroid' on the side on any of my models No

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:13 AM

No, it'd still be "100".. Admin numbers have three digits.. IIRC, the anti-sub sqn (VS) in a carrier air wing has six-eight S-3s assigned... So if the CAG was a Viking driver, he'd be flying "Showtime 100" still.. 

The USAF does it a little different.. They generally use separate callsign prefixes that have a common theme, like birds or cars or something.. A squadron of fighters might be "Pintail", with the subordinate elements of the sqn being "Pekin", "Mallard", and "Drake", or cars, like "Ford", "Chevy", and  "Dodge" with each flight having the same numbers, "One" (or "Lead", and "Two" (Flight Leader and his wingman) and the second element leader being "Three", and his wingman, "Four..

When say, the Squadron is using "Pintail", the squadron leader will call, "Pintail Check" and hear back from his element leads call back, Pekin"-"Mallard"-"Drake".. Then, when say, the "Mallard Flight" Leader calls, "Mallard Check", he'll hear, in quick sucession, "Two"-"Three"- "Four"...

As far as pilots chatting back and forth, using their personal callsigns, that only happens in the movies and in units where radio discipline has gone to hell, but in the heat of the moment, when they're in a big furball,  it's quite possible that some will actually call out a personal callsign..

 

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Monday, June 18, 2012 5:07 PM

Right.. Having "Showtime" painted on the nose would be wrong (and a breach of COMSEC rules)... Radio Callsign prefixes are generally temporary, usually 24 hours in duration and run from 0001 to 2400. "100" is generally going to be painted on the bird that the CAG flies, BTW..  If the CAG (Commander Air Group, and he 'owns' the aircraft on the roof, hangar deck, and the people in them.) is an A-6 pilot, then the A-6 squadron on-board will have the 100-series numbers..  Same-same if he was an F-8, A-6, or  A-7 driver..

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Monday, June 18, 2012 10:55 AM

So any airplane can have a call sign, as opposed to a name?

Right, but the entire squadron would also have one...  In the case of "Showtime 100", "Showtime" was the callsign for that particular flight of Phantoms on that day, , and "100" was the Phantom's admin number... (The Navy does things a little differently than the USAF, though. The Navy uses the admin numbers painted on the aircraft to ID it, while the Air Force used the aircraft's position in a flight to ID it)..

The fighters on a particular carrier get say, "100" and subsequent numbers, the A-4 squadron has "200", the A-7's "300", etc.. Since "Showtime" is the carrier's callsign that day, and the"100-series" are the Phantoms, that automatically lets you know that when you hear them on the radio, you know it's the Phantom being flown by Cunningham and Driscoll from that particular carrier.  BTW, Duke and Irish had their own assigned Phantom, the one with their names  on the canopy rails, but it was down that day.. That's why they were in "Showtime100"..

Clear as mud, right?

 

 

 

 

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Posted by dante821 on Monday, June 18, 2012 10:47 AM

I got "Chippy" although my wife thinks I should have gotten "Grumpy." 

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Monday, June 18, 2012 9:02 AM

bondoman

 stikpusher:

Blasphemer!

Showtime 100 is one of the greatest callsigns of post WWII Wink

 

Mehh....

IIRC and I do, it's been the name of a Navy aircraft, but not a call-sign.

 

Technically, "Showtime 100" was the radio call-sign for the CAG-bird that Cunnigham and Driscoll were flying.. The call-signs of Cunningham and Driscoll were "Duke" and "Irish", respectively..

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Monday, June 18, 2012 8:58 AM

Well, I hope it doesn't get nuked, because I at least, am getting some good info for potential call-signs to paint or decal onto canopy-rails...  

 

 

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Posted by 89er on Monday, June 18, 2012 8:14 AM

I got Lt. Hang , hmm, sounds more like an adult film star name.

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Monday, June 18, 2012 7:45 AM

castelnuovo

 

 Sprue-ce Goose:

 

 

 

I believe only the " fur rubbing " threads and posts are nuked.............Hmm

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/ae287/sprue_cegoose/pix/th_Kalashnikitty.jpg

 

 

Hmmmm, maybeConfused....but my "count to 500" post, if you remember it, wasn't "fur rubbing" yet it get nukedSad...Maybe I shoud try it again...on Friday eveningWhistling

Ah, yes...........Count to 500.......Maybe somebody never liked Sesame Street?

I wonder if anyone has a call sign inspired by this Sesame Street character?

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Posted by castelnuovo on Monday, June 18, 2012 2:12 AM

Sprue-ce Goose

I believe only the " fur rubbing " threads and posts are nuked.............Hmm

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/ae287/sprue_cegoose/pix/th_Kalashnikitty.jpg

Hmmmm, maybeConfused....but my "count to 500" post, if you remember it, wasn't "fur rubbing" yet it get nukedSad...Maybe I shoud try it again...on Friday eveningWhistling

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