Aircraft, Aeroplane or Airplane? Well as far as the powers that be I worked for are concerned its that horrible word PLATFORM. However as I my work involved putting a weapons Platform on an Airdrop Platform in to the Platform (the aircraft) that needed its navigation Platform to function correctly or else the Airdrop Platform would end up on a railway Platform I tended to purposely ovoid using the 'P' word in my reports.
For the Aeroplane / Airplane debate I found it hilarious that Airbus would insist on using 'Airplane' rather than the more european Aeroplane in all their documents