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?
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.
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....