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IVL Kotka
Just checking that the IVL Kotka is probably the same as VL Kotka ? MilborneOne 18:29, 28 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Indeed! Redirected - thanks --Rlandmann 20:12, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

McDonnell XV
Should the McDonnell XV be the McDonnell XV-1 ? MilborneOne (talk) 19:21, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes --Rlandmann (talk) 19:48, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Nakajima Atakusa
Appears to be the Nakajima C6N1 but the only thing I can find is from a plastic kit ? MilborneOne (talk) 20:19, 5 September 2008 (UTC)


 * No, something quite different. Jane's says this was a "twin-engine six-seat commercial monoplane of the latter 1930s" and notes its use by the Manchuria Aviation Company. 暁 "Akatsuki" means "dawn". --Rlandmann (talk) 17:28, 6 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks - needs a bit more research then! MilborneOne (talk) 18:49, 6 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I have a feeling that it's actually an alternative name for (or a specific version of) the Nakajima AT-2, but we'll see! --Rlandmann (talk) 20:59, 6 September 2008 (UTC)


 * No, it was the Nakajima LB-2 --Rlandmann (talk) 05:33, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Macchi M.13
After poking around a bit, I believe that this entry in Jane's is a mistake and that this aircraft didn't actually exist. The entry (on p. 617) simply says "See Schneider Trophy contestants"; however the "Schneider Trophy contestants" article (pp. 794-97) mentions no such aircraft. Neither the RAF Thesaurus nor the NASM Directory of Airplanes mention an M.13, and while Jane's All the World's Aircraft of 1919 has detailed information on then-current Macchi types from M.5 through M.15 and several subtypes, the M.13 is conspicuously absent.

The lists of Schneider competitors on hydroretro.net and the Society of Air Racing Historians websites make no mention of a Macchi M.13, nor do contemporary articles in Flight. There was, of course, the Savoia S.13 that competed in 1919 and strongly resembled the Macchi 'boats of the time... If the "M.13" existed in any form at all, perhaps it was an unbuilt design intended to compete for the Schneider?

In any case, until and unless anything else comes to light, I'm treating it as an error and delinking it. --Rlandmann (talk) 22:55, 19 October 2008 (UTC)