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damiaes

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Mar 12, 2008
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Hello ..... here I leave you a few photos what I took away to the E3 Sentry of the NATO, which passed here by the Montijo - Portugal - BA6 Montijo
 

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Thanks for the photos. Did anyone notice that the "NATO" on the left wing is reversed, "OTAN"? Since NATO is correct of the side of the plane, it is not because the image was flipped. Any thoughts?

DBII
 
No it is correct, the reason it is spelled that way is because it is the way the French Spell it.

NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization/Organisation

OTAN: Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord

If you look at the side of the aircraft as well (best seen in the first pic) it is spelled both ways.

NATO + OTAN

Here are some more pics to show you:
 

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I have a couple of shots from the 80's. I will see if they are the same way. Do you know the purpose of reversing it? I thought that Bubbba from East Texas painted it. :lol:

DBII
 
Makes perfect sense. What a waste of paint. As an english speaking person, just put OTAN on the damn thing and be done with it. Waste of paint for national pride.
 
They are really nice photos those ones. I think OTAN is a French pride thing meaning that if necessary they can reserve the right to back out of any NATO problems in Europe in the 1980s.
 
For us Portuguese is not a matter of natonal pride!!
We don`t use the therm OTAN we allways say NATO, because sounds better!
I think we have no problem with that, probably it`s just a French thing....
 

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