Complex sentence: The prototype Sprite, named the Pilot Sprite, was designed by a team at Loughborough University and had little in common with Garrison's design, though both were all-metal side-by-side low-wing cantilever monoplanes with tricycle landing gear.
Split into simpler sentences: The prototype Sprite, named the Pilot Sprite, was designed by a team at Loughborough University and had little in common with Garrison's design. The Sprite was an all-metal side-by-side low-wing cantilever monoplane with a tricycle landing gear.