Hollywood has it all wrong. No one in the fighter jet business, and I mean no one, gets a cool callsign such as "Maverick," "Iceman" or "Burner" for being the Holy Grail of aviation. Callsigns come about because a young pilot commits the cardinal sin of fighter aviation ... looking ridiculous in front of peers. My callsign came about from just such a situation - and I'm lucky to be alive to tell the story.
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