Every aircraft’s call sign needs to be entered into its flight management computer, Petchenik told Task & Purpose. Normally, that is done by someone aboard the aircraft. After a KC-135 broadcast ...

For every pilot flying an aircraft in the military, there is a story behind their call sign that they probably wouldn't want to share with their mother. As far as military traditions go ...

Call signs are also used to identify those pilots' vital partners: their aircraft. Call signs ease friendly communications (with air traffic control, for instance) while serving as something of a ...

The aircraft’s official call sign was “Inmate 72.” Prior to that incident, two other KC-135s transmitted the call sign “Boobies” in March 2022 while the planes were on the ground at Al ...

A baby girl born on a US military evacuation flight en route to Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Saturday has been named Reach after the call sign of the aircraft, according to the top US general ...

A baby delivered on an aircraft fleeing Kabul was named after the plane's call sign: Reach. Reach is one of at least three babies born amid the ongoing Afghanistan evacuation. Two babies were born ...