Call signs are of vital importance to aviators. They're used to identify specific pilots, with the Department of Defense noting, "If you've been a fully trained military pilot for more than a few ...

The 2025 Pensacola Beach Air Show is just days away, which means many are planning to head out to the beach to get a glimpse of the Blue Angels. Most everyone knows the iconic blue and gold jets of ...

Hundreds of call signs may be seen at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, FL. Source: Carrie Kennedy The origin of aviator call signs is murky, even to military historians. But all agree ...

The names Pete Mitchell and Nick Bradshaw might mean very little to most, but when these two are called by their aviator call signs "Maverick" and "Goose," that all changes. Even though they're the ...

It’s nothing new when an Army helo crew throws out interesting call signs before taking flight. Today, a CH-47 Chinook helicopter crew — with a tail number of AE59B1 — plugged in a call sign of ...

DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas – Call signs, those nicknames given to military pilots by their peers, are always given out of love. But, “it's a tough love. Oh, I swear it,” agreed Jack Caszatt, laughing ...

It’s Top Gun: Maverick Week here at For The Win, where we’ve taken to the skies for five days of content to celebrate the premiere of the sequel to 1986's iconic ode to naval aviation. Strap in for a ...

The Navy is telling its aircrews they should push back if their flights are assigned a call sign that could be considered in bad taste after the crew of an E-6B Mercury — sometimes called a “Doomsday” ...

Chicago P.D. prides itself on featuring realistic police encounters, and having call signs is part of that. Each member of the Chicago P.D. Intelligence Unit has a specific call sign, or code name, ...

The use of call signs goes back to 1912, when each nation was assigned a letter or group of letters for radio stations at the International Radiotelegraph Conference, held in London. The US was ...

Jamie Rae, debut author of Call Sign Karma, uses her experience as the wife of an Air Force fighter pilot to write a feisty fighter pilot heroine. Here, she also shares her top five fictional military ...