If ships are feminine are aircraft masculine?

[Dave_Jackson]

http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/flying/assets/hb2036.jpg

[flightmedic1]

I've always heard aircraft being referred to in the feminine, eg. she is a goodlooking machine.

But maybe that is just a South African thing. :cool:

[SASless]

Read the "Cannibal Queen" and there will be no more discussion of this issue....the truth was laid out pure and simple in that book about flying an old bi-plane about the country.

[cl12pv2s]

Masculine and Equine by the looks of it.