Ah, now there's a problem in itself. Sir Humphrey Davey, who discovered the process for extracting this wonderful lightweight metal named it ALUMINUM.
The Royal Society, deciding that new elements should end with "ium", renamed it ALUMINIUM.
Our American cousins however, had the courtesy to continue respecting the original British scientist's name for it.
Strange world we live in isn't it!
G
N.B. Whirly, I have a chopper, it is made of steel and hickory and it's used for truncating trees. It has flown on several occasions, but only when the handle gets wet - and once when it came off!
N.B.B. Sir George, would I be right in thinking that your illustrious ancestor used the term "aerial carriage"?