Bart I see where you're getting at. But in terms of an aircraft machine gun a spandau is a completely different gun. If you walked up to a ww1 aviation buff and pointed at the gun and called it a spandau he would tell you its a parabellum. A spandau is the forward mounted machine gun the pilot controls. And you can't really call it a spandau since it wasn't produced by them either as you pointed out saying it was made by dwm not the spandau government arsenal. Yes it may be the "aircraft variation" of the mg08 but its not a spandau by aircraft terms.
I think this is the version of the Mg08 you're thinking of.
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