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The HD.5 and HD.6 were very different designs from the HD.3 and don't seem to qualify as variants. The both have their own articles now and I was tempted to remove them from here, but I decided to wait for checks on the text of Bruce Fighters vol5. Anyone got it?TSRL (talk) 15:19, 18 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
Agreed that the HD.5 and HD.6 can be removed from the article as they are unrelated aircraft (although the HD.6 does bear a superficial resemblence owing to the Salmson engines. I have Bruce - what do you want to check?Nigel Ish (talk) 15:47, 18 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
That's good; I'll remove them. I just wanted to be sure that Bruce did not assert they were closely related (to variant status), as he was the source cited by the anon IP who added them. I also wondered about the HD.9; I've got no info on that, apart from seeing a pic somewhere (aviafrance?) and thinking that it was a bit more HD.3 like, with stagger and a single bay. Does it qualify as a variant? BTW, I'll try to stop typing 7.7 in! Thanks for spotting.TSRL (talk) 19:21, 18 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
Bruce says that "the airframe of the HD.9.Ap.1 was basically that of the HD.3.C.2" - they have the same wingspan, wing area and length - and the same engine. It definitely counts as a variant of the HD.3.Nigel Ish (talk) 19:32, 18 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
