Anyone knows what this is ?

Modly,
What can I say more than I just said.
I am a translator by trade, my boss is a linguist and he is Czech by birth. He confirmed that those words engraved on that camera are Czech. That is ample proof for me.

If you do not believe me, please go to the Czech dictionary website (I provided a link above) and check the meaning of the words for yourself.

Radu

I just try to help. I didn't know that czech and cro language have those word identicle.

This post has been edited by Modly on July 07, 2008 07:14 pm

Serb-Croat and Czech share a common Slavic root. It is very possible that some words are identical.

Maybe you can explain how a Yugoslav item ended up in the MMN.

I cannot find any reason why a Yugoslav gun camera would be on display in the MMN (Maybe from an Orao? Doubtful...) but I can find a lot of reasons why a Czech gun camera would be there. :-)

Radu

This post has been edited by Radub on September 27, 2006 10:39 am

The reasons are very much needed, whatever reasons you can think of pls post them in here.

My reasons:
Many aircraft used by the Romanian Air Force after 1947 were Russian aircraft manufactured under licence in the Czech Republic.
Russian camera+Czech text=Russian camera licence-built in Czech Republic.
Each aircraft fitted with such a camera could represent a "reason"
I would go for Il10 or a MiG15 Bis.

HTH
Radu

Hello

There is no such language as Croatian-Serbo. Those two languages are similar, as Czech, Polish nad rest of Slaves languages are.
If I say that Romanians and Hungarians are brother nations, just because thay share living space?

if it is from period pre WW II there were some Hurricane-Zmaj captured by Romanians.
Post WW II period, project "Orao".

Modly,
If I offended you by using the term "Serb-Croat" to describe the language, I apologise.

That camera could not possibly come from a Zmaj-built Hurricane for a number of reasons. First of all, it is a Russian post-war design. Secondly, there is no evidence that the Zmaj-built Hurricanes were fitted with any type of camera.

There is a very faint possibility that that particular gun camera was fitted to an Orao. I do not know enough about that to make a comment, but I magine that the Orao was fitted with a more up-to-date camera.

However, there is plenty of factual evidence, documentation ,photographs, etc. that prove that that particular camera was licence-built in Czechoslovakia and fitted to aircraft that Romanians purchased from Czecholsovakia.

The "Yugoslav" theory is very tenuous...

HTH
Radu