How did you get your Callsign?
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I gave my nick by myself since I started simulated flying… well, too many years ago
I chose it straight from a spy novel titled “The Day of the Jackal”. It’s about a deadly (literally) precise sniper, hired by an extremist political organization to kill French President Charles De Gaulle for treasonery in 1963 - all the facts are historically true, only the character is ficticious.
My choice was due to the fact that I love to fly SEAD missions, and when I’m at my best I like to kill SAMs (and AAA too) with a single shot and in a creative way also, in case. A modest guy, huh?
With best regards to all.
Ahhh, love to hear from fellow Weasels
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Thanks, dear mate, it’s always fine if you’re appreciated… from time to time, I ask no more
With best regards.
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Got mine from being a nerd. Obviously
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@Master:
Got mine from being a nerd. Obviously
I think that’s a valid summary for most of us
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My original call sign was given to me by guys on a softball team when I was a player/manager.
They said that the words coming out of my mouth were like “Venom”.I used that call sign for many years until I changed virtual wings and found that it had be taken by someone else.
So I adopted “Badger” from my birth state of Wisconsin. -
I used to be Draven which is the last name of Brandon Lee’s character in the movie The Crow. Just thought it sounded cool. I got tired of my old callsign so I changed to Carbide. I make/engineer carbide cutting tools and I thought carbide would make for a good callsign.
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Thanks for posting that, Carbide! When I saw your callsign I figured you probably work with carbide tools. But part of me wondered if you were a caver, specifically a “carbide caver”. It’s getting increasingly rare for cavers to use acetylene lamps (which use calcium carbide). I used one for many years in the 2000s and 2010s, and might use it again, but even by then it was getting increasingly hard to get calcium carbide. At least here in the USA. In other parts of the world, CaC2 might still be used for making acetylene for welding, but not much in the USA anymore, I don’t think. So, being a “carbide caver” is hard to do, even though it’s cool. And, of course, LEDs are getting so good that carbide isn’t the brightest game in town any longer.
But I still think “carbide caving” is neat, and I hope to use my carbide lamp again someday. And machine tools are very cool. My grandfather was a WWII-era machinist at Dana in Toledo, and I enjoy looking at his old machinist’s toolbox and the lathe bits in it that he made.
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I have never done any spelunking. I have toured caves and know about the acetylene lamps but have never used one. I think one guide we had in Mammoth Cave, it was a lantern tour back in the mid 80’s, used a acetylene lantern but I can’t be certain.
We have made tools for Dana through a distributer before. But not recently that I know of. We don’t know the end user a lot of the time. -
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Got mine because of the state i was from.