Talk:EoN Olympia

Variants
I've removed the linking from the marks 1,2 and 3 in the Variants section, since these only redirect to this article. They will not get separate articles, for they are all Type 5s and differed only a little from each other. At the moment we claim that the mk 4 is "regarded" (by whom?) as a "new type". Presumably we think it and the 401 and 402 are worth a separate article, so those links should not be redirected but left as redlinks to encourage someone to write it. Either that, or we deal with them in this article, since they are all EoN Type 5s, and remove these wls as well. At the moment the wlinking is misleading, for the reader thinks they will get information on the "different" mk 4 etc by going to the link, only to find themselves back at the original article and uninformed.TSRL (talk) 08:20, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Variants - range of cover
It's true that the 1, 2 and 3 are more like each other than like the 4 but, having thought a bit more, I'm not convinced we need a separate article for them (4, 401, 402, one built of each). The 4 has a wing of different airfoil section but the same span and area, so it's not hugely different though it's true that the new wing boosted the L/D from 25 to 36. So I'd extend this page to cover them. That done (if we all agree, of course) I think it would be natural, from the POV of a reader looking for EoN Olympias, to extend it further to cover 403 (1 of), 415(1 of) and 419 (7 of), even though they are Elliotts Type 6 rather than 5. The Olympia 402 (Type 5) was the Olympia 4 with a new 17 m span wing and the 403 (Type 6) had the 402's wing onto the 401 (Type 5), with fairly small changes to the fuselage. So the move from Type 5 to Type 6 seems to be pretty seamless. Type number apart, there's no obvious break point in the series. What do you think?TSRL (talk) 09:18, 10 May 2011 (UTC)