RAF Fighter Pilot Reacts to Pilot Callsigns 

Ewan McGregors brother Colin, when he was a Tornado driver, had the nickname "Obi Two".

The comment "We haven't got enough jets to name" made me laugh and wince at the same time!

In Penang the resident RAAF Mirage III squadrons had call signs Viper and Cobra When 74 Squadron RAF visited they used the call sign Mongoose

Imagine Tim and wombat on the same program.

I'm from Liverpool, England and my first job after graduating from University was for a NASA subcontractor in Casper, Wyoming in 1995. My boss asked me to go to a round-table conference in Casper and we were all given a pad and pencil to take notes. I kept writing things down incorrectly so I looked around the room until I saw a guy diagonally opposite me (about 10 ft away) with what I was looking for so I called him and said... "Excuse me, can you pass me the rubber?" Everyone stopped and looked and me. The guy I was calling (as well as some women) started blushing so I said, it's that thing next to your glass of water. He picked it up and passed it to me from across the table. Anyway, I said "thank you" but I didn't know what they hell happened so when I got back to the office, I told my boss who studied and worked with some British guys in Tennessee and as he was laughing, he said "a rubber in the United States is slang for a condom". Here in the UK, a rubber is an eraser.

He nailed the description of Mace. I’ve thought the same exact thing 😅

One Eagle driver gets caught with his Crew Chief, and now all the Eagle dudes got loose nozzles. 😂

As an ex Fishhead (1978-99) in the days before the RN had name tallies, I was in the US Naval Base in Virginia as the frigate was in STANAVFORLANT. We were invited to a social event at a USN Captain's house. We were told to make name tallies. It was time to take the piss. I was LT Hans Von Fartengerzordenplatz III Jnr RN. Cant remember how many times people asked the origin of that name. Gave them a different story everytime.

Haha, i've seen this a few times now and i just love that "Mine said Tim Davies cause that's my name" bit and gonky just loses it. . Everyone if you have not seen the whole video, please go see it. Awesome episode. Some very serious bits but also so much british humor.

Tim is such an amazing person and I loved his response to the callsign topic!!!! Please have him back again.

I do recall a British pilot known as "Mental" Ward

Tim is funny as hell. Keep bringing him on as a regular!

This brings to mind something else: Americans will be naming their foreign interventions like "Operation Righteous Eagle" or "Operation Infallible Freedom". The British will name theirs aggressively random things like "Operation Oblique" or "Operation Norbert".

Funniest story ever was when a newly arrived american man scheduled his first conference with his team of 40 people, 80% of them were women over 40... he looks everyone square in the eyes, rubs his hands together and confidently states " OKAY PEOPLE, LET'S GET DOWN AND SHAG" In American " let's talk" In English " let's have wild sex" Mortified doesn't even come close to how he felt when finally someone regained enough composure to explain his faux pas

I was an RAF Air Defence Technician My boss was at RAF Neatishead (area traffic control) And heard the Following " Neatishead control we are a Pair of F .... orbiting Orford ness" "Neatishead control we have you on radar how can we help ?" " Neatishead can you call Base ops at Mildenhall , We have Forgotten our call signs ?" Ring Ring "Mildenhall we have 2 of your Aircraft on radar they have forgotten their call signs": without a Pause :- "Stupid One And Stupid Two" so Stupid one and Stupid Two did several Bombing runs on Ranges around Britain. Individual Call signs are stupid and can cause some horrendous dangerous mix ups.

You need to sit down and do an hour long video session with Tim Davies. There is nothing better when you have International service rivalvalry. You know us Brits will always come up with a good dose of sarcasm and Irony. Bringing everything down to reality with a massive screeching bump!

You have to watch the whole interview. Good old fashion British forces humour all the way through

We need to hear more about messing with the Eagle guys, those sound like some great stories😂

"Because we're not abused children" even as an ex squaddie that one was savage. I may or may not have once or twice made jokes about the RAF living in three star hotels with hot running hookers. Usually while enjoying their base facilities but at least they don't have the sheer ego to roar around the sky's making pew pew noises pretending to fly an X wing.

Cornwallace lemover! Perfect gamertag! Haha

Love seeing Tim on the show a great banter from all you guys! New regular please!

I was deep into FSX but with limited real world flying, I could only extrapolate what behaved accurately but had no real idea. Tim did a review and a series of instructional videos on Dino's Goshawk. It was such great insight from someone who had flown the BAE Hawk extensively and really enhanced my experience. What was amazing was how responsive he was to this wannabe's inquiries. I had no idea he was so hilarious.

More Tim please. National treasure!

I love hearing the ATC at my local base RAAF Williamtown (aka Willytown) where I served on Hornets for 12yrs, being called 'Willy Tower' on MS FlightSim.

Tim rocks! Great guest guys thank you!

Flying at the Airlines one of the more interesting co-pilots to fly with was a Marine A4 pilot call sign (nickname, whatever) "Buzz". Buzz had some great stories and my favorite one was a "naming ceremony" a AF pilot got when he checked into a Navy Training Squadron on an exchange tour. Said AF hot shot, callsign SierraHotel or some cool name checks in with the Squadron Ops Officer, a Marine Captain. AF pilot introduces himself and announces his call sign as GUNNER or ACE or some such hot shot handle. The Marine CAPT unimpressed looks up and announces "nice to have you aboard and from know on we will call you GUMBY. The next dinning out GUMBY's wife is confused that all the other pilots are calling him GUMBY and not using his AF Naming Ceremony official call sign. Thus the Navy/Marine naming tradition, you just up and get stuck with a nickname the other pilots decide is yours.

Very early in my military career my unit played host to a contingent of USAF A-10 pilots. Anytime they were moving around the camp, wherever they went, British Soldiers would dive into bushes or take cover behind trees, some even ran away screaming....During the 1991 invasion of Iraq, a USAF A-10 destroyed 2 British Army Warrior IFVs...Soldiers have a long memory for things like that! For the period of the pilots visit, Soldiers also adapted callsigns, such as Dogturd, Flapjack, Pancake and Ringpull. The RSM begrudgingly accepted 'Tachelord', the man had a magnificent moustache.

Brits great. Very practical.

What a hoot!

Wing Commander Andy Green (Current Land Speed Record holder (763mph)) has the nickname 'Dead Dog' from when he first got started the squadron convinced him he killed the squadrons' mascot dog., a skit that lasted a week and a LOT of the RAF was asking how well the skit was going.

I thought his comment about Mace was funny because I thought the same thing. That's the face of a woman who has been around the guys so long she just zones out while they are BSing. LOL Gotta have her on more!

Funnier the second time round. Tim needs to be a regular on the show.

That was hysterically funny! USS Nimitz 84-88.

Mooo-ver the cow killer

TY 🙏🙏

That was great.

Hilarious. Nice one Tim

1:26 yup .... why America has broken the world :) Excellent answer from Tim.

Yes.... It just evolves. You wake up one day and presto: "Skywolf"

Back on top form Tim. 😊

We had a pair of Brits in the VTs who we called “Fish” and “Chips” 😂

Loved the show made me laugh

I spent 7 years living Blighty, a long time ago... and until now I hadn't realized that I've missed that "Does it reeeeeally?" (5 mins in)!

Thanks

Agreed,good for movies but that's it.

It is when the name tag is sown on upside down so the wearer can read it easily you have to worry.

Worked a warehouse job where the boss was a retired Navy pilot and gave everyone callsigns. New hires were always FNG, which they had until they proved themselves and got a good callsign. However, he reserved the acronym UAMT - pronounced You-Am-Tee, for the guys who couldn't cut it. Legally, it meant Untrainable, Accident-prone, Misrepresentation, Theft, the four reasons they'd get canned. It actually meant "Useless As Man Tits".

OMG that was one of the most fucking hilarious man-comedies I’ve ever witnessed. Also Kudos for bringing Davies onto the channel. That’s a pretty f-u kind of thing, given the current UK government. Go get em Tim.

I watched one of Gonky's videos on his channel. He spoke of some background info and I am 95% sure I figured it out. Then I was sad.

Brits are freaking funny.

OMG this dude is effing hilarious!

This guy is hilarious.

Calls signs are tough, when you always have a stiff upper lip 😂

You can these guys are from different countries but they are very similar.

Naming ceremonies?? In the Navy we did it the old-fashioned way. We'd f*ck something up, generally and the JO's just started calling us names. If the name stuck (especially if you didn't like the name) that was your callsign.

No BS saw a pilot's name on the side of a jet....LTCDR Stickles. His callsign is "Tess".

Tim, I thought RAF pilots are fond of call signs. Weren’t there guys like “Stuffy” Dowding, “Bomber” Harris and “One Bomb” Beetham?😂

Laugh ? I nearly started.

"Sofa" because i mever cared about my hair! I'm a fucking soldier and bauld now!

How is Nip's bad even if it referred to us as Japanese. It is a derivative of Nippon. I kind of like it.

Wasn’t one of the famous F-15 guys in Iraq called D*ldo?

Please tell me you have a Lord Flasheart...

I'd have Donkey or Rhino

Okay. What's a quaife ? It's a type of hat or a manufacturer of gearboxs is all i can find ?

"Eggs" Benedict

I think it's likely the Navy got caught in flagrante delicto and couldn't think up a better lie on the spot tbh.

2:14 ... On Wednesdays we wear pink...

Ummm - what about 'Turbo'?

Why “pucker “the nozzle while taxiing? Noise?

Tim is funny as hell, but man is he spun.

How many aircraft have the RAF shot down since World War 2? Tw0 - and one was Blue on Blue. The Boy Scouts could have done better, Tim.

Mine was camel toe one 😁

by 2040 there will be one British squadron & it will wear a burqa

Sadly the British do not speak English

Tim is made out of pure copium. If he cried any harder he’d catch fire.

RAF has like 3 airplanes...by this guy running his mouth, he draws attention to that sad fact

So glad that you have found a Brit who is as off the wall as you two. Long may you all live.

There was a Red a arrows pilot called Alex Deacon. On the side of his aircraft was Alex “Joey” Deacon. If you know you know 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Here is my guess as to Gonky’s call sign meaning. And for the record I don’t think it’s true, I just can’t come up with another acronym. “Gay only nobody knows yet”.