"Breguet 18 in Rif war???" Topic
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| badwargamer | 25 Apr 2017 8:14 a.m. PST |
Hi. I have a question that I can't find an answer too. I have read that the Breguet 18 was used by the French in the Rif war. I can't find any reference to this plane. I can find the 14 and the 15,16 and 17 variants of that. There is also the 19 but I can't find anything about the 18. Any ideas? |
| T Labienus | 25 Apr 2017 9:46 a.m. PST |
Hi, The "Breguet 18" was in fact the "Breguet LE", this means "Laboratoire Eiffel", it was an aircraft prototype of Gustave Eiffel.
aero.land.free.fr/breguet.html The use of this plane in the rif war would be a mistake… |
| badwargamer | 25 Apr 2017 10:39 a.m. PST |
Many thanks indeed for clearing that up! Very interesting. |
| rmaker | 25 Apr 2017 1:41 p.m. PST |
I would suspect a typo at some point in the chain of information, especially since Breguet was using Roman numerals in that period. It would be very easy for XVII to be mis-set as XVIII and for the error to be overlooked. |
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