The British Aerospace history website helps match older aircraft names with the names used today. Doctoral research into aircraft carriers and naval aviation in the 1920s and 1930s explains the use of period names in the Blackburn discussion. That research examined how carriers and aircraft developed alongside each other. Some names remembered as applying to variants seem to have become the dominant names for the aircraft. Comparing period and later terminology helps identify the aircraft being discussed. No individual example of a naming change is explained in this short introduction.
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Why Blackburn's period aircraft names need checking
Period Blackburn aircraft names can differ from later usage, particularly where an apparent variant name has become the familiar name for an aircraft.