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Originally Posted by Breguet
As different as it was was it ever given another designation?  |
A problem with a number of early machines is a lack of official company designation, at least generally known ones. So far as I know, most of the early Sopwiths were referred to only by a descriptive term or nickname. If there were other company designations, they aren't used when we describe any of the machines prior to the 1F "Camel".
Hence, for a particular company,and especially for non-production machines, "Hispano xplane" and "Gnome xplane" might describe the same design with different engines, or quite different designs that happen to share the xplane configuration.