"Nice Again" wrote in message
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That's one of the points, you can tell the mfg. Doh!


So what? With that system you wind up with multiple designations for
virtually identical aircraft. A Corsair could be an F4U, an FG, or an F3A.
Boeing, Douglas and Vega all built Flying Fortresses, but under the USAAF
system they were all B-17s.