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Re: SNO sun-scope collimation collar -- what about vertical?
From: Peter Hakel
Date: 2010 Apr 3, 12:59 -0700
From: Frank Reed <FrankReed@HistoricalAtlas.com>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Sat, April 3, 2010 12:35:06 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: SNO sun-scope collimation collar -- what about vertical?
From: Peter Hakel
Date: 2010 Apr 3, 12:59 -0700
I agree. It's an accident that these particular abbreviations only contain Cyrillic letters that look like Roman ones. One could write "Су" for Sukhoi aircraft but nobody does that when using the Roman alphabet. And then, of course, with МиГ (MiG) there is no choice, so one might as well transliterate consistently.
Peter Hakel
Peter Hakel
From: Frank Reed <FrankReed@HistoricalAtlas.com>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Sat, April 3, 2010 12:35:06 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: SNO sun-scope collimation collar -- what about vertical?
Re "CHO" versus the proper "SNO". Sorry, but having studied Russian, I just can't stand that barbaric usage! I'm kidding. :-) It's not really barbaric, but it sure ain't right. It's like writing CCCP for the old USSR.
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