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Luftwaffe Designation for Russian Aircraft as 'J-18'

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11th December 2017, 21:04

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Re: Luftwaffe Designation for Russian Aircraft as 'J-18'

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Originally Posted by Tim O.

Hi Nick

For what it is worth, my experience is also that a number of spellings in Flugbuche reflect German phonetics, particularly Russian place names, which can almost magically appear if we replace J with Y and Z with TS, etc.

Nor could they reliably spell French or Italian place names or the names of their own people! Human fallibility at work.

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