I was right in 2009!
A few minutes of looking a Wikipedia pages and I found these words (since I am not co-located with my MG reference library at the moment).
"The Maschinengewehr 08, or MG08, was the German Army's standard machine gun in World War I and is an adoption of Hiram S. Maxim's original 1884 Maxim Gun.
Pre-war production was by Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) in Berlin and the government arsenal at Spandau (so that the gun was often referred to as a Spandau MG08)."
Also:
"The Parabellum MG14 was a 7.9 mm caliber World War I machine gun built by Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken. It was an adaptation of their Maschinengewehr 08 gun intended for use on aircraft and zeppelins."
So, as I said years back, that is an aircraft version of the Spandau (version of the Maxim), standard German machine gun of WW1.
Bart Noir
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