Have books and magazines around...about airplanes and flying if you'd like to maintain/encourage interest in that direction.
A set of Encyclopedia Britannica was there for all my questions on anything. Now there's Wikipedia through the monitor.
Unless you or she think the use of "boys" is a conscious attempt to discourage her from the group, ignore it. Maybe discuss ingrained habit and the way language evolves...the painful-to-old-folks "Each person packs their own parachute." Note that female groups now sometimes use "you guys" with each other.
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