"Thomas Schoene" wrote in message
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I'd call it a bug, not a feature. If it told you the designer, it might
be
of some value, but manufacturer names are often too fluid to be helpful.
As
is, the system is potentially quite confusing, as the examples given
before
can show (F4U, FG and F3B are the same plane!?!)


Ah, but they're not the same plane! The F4U was, of course, the Vought
Corsair, and the FG was a Corsair built by Goodyear. But the F3B was a
Boeing biplane fighter of the late twenties. The Brewster-built Corsair was
the F3A.