Saturday 22nd July 2023
Difficulty: Very easy
Airline call signs (Quiz #246)
A plane belonging to British Airways, call sign SPEEDBIRD. Photo by Isaac Struna (Unsplash)
Every airline has its own unique call sign, which is used in communications with its aircraft. For example, British Airways planes use the call sign SPEEDBIRD.
1. Which airline uses the callsign SHAMROCK?
2. Which now-defunct US airline used to use the callsign CLIPPER?
3. The British Airways callsign, SPEEDBIRD, is actually the name of the stylised "bird in flight" logo that was used by one of the company's predecessors. From which company were the logo and the SPEEDBIRD callsign inherited when British Airways was formed?
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