View Poll Results: What do you call what you fly?
Aeroplane
33
32.35%
Airplane
7
6.86%
Aircraft
31
30.39%
Plane
17
16.67%
Don\'t know/don\'t care
14
13.73%
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What do you call what you fly?
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Whirly - I was indoctrinated at RAFC Cranwell! I do refer to the Pitts as a biplane, as well.
Bernard Chabbert, the French airline pilot who writes for one of the American flying comics, wrote a lovely article about flying his Waco. In it, he analysed the difference between avion and aeronafe (sp?).
Anyone else seen said article?
Stik
Bernard Chabbert, the French airline pilot who writes for one of the American flying comics, wrote a lovely article about flying his Waco. In it, he analysed the difference between avion and aeronafe (sp?).
Anyone else seen said article?
Stik
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Let me give you guys two definitions as defined by the FAA :
Aircraft: means a device that is used or intended to be used for flight in the air
now this can be anything - from a balloon to a helo to a airplane
Airplane: means an engine-driven fixed-wing aircraft heavier than air, that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its wings
Notice, it doesn't say "aeroplane"
Aircraft: means a device that is used or intended to be used for flight in the air
now this can be anything - from a balloon to a helo to a airplane
Airplane: means an engine-driven fixed-wing aircraft heavier than air, that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its wings
Notice, it doesn't say "aeroplane"
You will learn the difference between 'aircraft' and 'aeroplane' when you do JAR-FCL ATPL Aviation Law. But either are infinitely better than the totally inaccurate word 'airplane' used by some. The same people who spell 'manoeuvre' as 'maneuver'........
'Planes' come in various forms. But they are all woodworking tools.
'Planes' come in various forms. But they are all woodworking tools.
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Usually, and especially when I want her to start promptly and behave herself, I call her Lulubelle. No idea why - must be lost in the depths of my subconscious. But she seems to like it, and treats me well.
And she's an AEROPLANE.
AIRPLANE is a device for shaving slices off the atmosphere.
And she's an AEROPLANE.
AIRPLANE is a device for shaving slices off the atmosphere.
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"Aeroplane" normally, but I've recently noticed that if I'm not involved in the operation and am therefore thinking of it as a place rather than a flying machine, i.e. as SLF on an airliner, then I sometimes refer to it as a "plane", as in, "It's OK, I had some food on the plane". Weird.
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Since knowing Stik, it's been "aeroplane". But like AerBabe, the odd "plane" does slip out, especially when talking to non-flyers about "plane crashes" etc etc.
But for some very silly reason "aeroplane" sounds almost more professional !
Also from time to time I call the wing the "plane", which I spose isn't wrong as that's what it is!
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But for some very silly reason "aeroplane" sounds almost more professional !
Also from time to time I call the wing the "plane", which I spose isn't wrong as that's what it is!
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DB6 - having watched you at very close range for the past 48 hrs, I suppose that you'll be referring to that bitch aircraft when you see her back at work on Monday.
So you didn't win a medal then at the Nationals? (Neither did I!!)
Stik
So you didn't win a medal then at the Nationals? (Neither did I!!)
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The Douglas Bader Story
There was a Douglas Bader film on terrestrial telly yesterday early evening.
Once the long awaited spares eventually arrived at Duxford, Bader asked his Engineering SNCO if he now had sufficient.
"I've got enough for all the planes in Fighter Command, Sir!", said the chap.
"It is an aeroplane, never call it a plane!", said Bader.
And if it is good enough for Douglas, then it should be good enough for the rest of us!
Stik
Once the long awaited spares eventually arrived at Duxford, Bader asked his Engineering SNCO if he now had sufficient.
"I've got enough for all the planes in Fighter Command, Sir!", said the chap.
"It is an aeroplane, never call it a plane!", said Bader.
And if it is good enough for Douglas, then it should be good enough for the rest of us!
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Airplane - doesn't sound like a proper word
Aeroplane - sounds too much like 'airplane' when you say it quickly and too much like baby talk when you say it slowly
Aircraft - sounds far too general
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Plane - sounds too......well plain
At the moment if having an argument that I'm not winning I say..."Yeah, but I can fly planes!"
....works for me right now!
Aeroplane - sounds too much like 'airplane' when you say it quickly and too much like baby talk when you say it slowly
Aircraft - sounds far too general
and
Plane - sounds too......well plain
At the moment if having an argument that I'm not winning I say..."Yeah, but I can fly planes!"
....works for me right now!
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Aeroplane (or airplane) never plane (clearly for wood working) but occasionally 'plane (the apostrophe makes ALL the difference)
Not to mention 'plank' or 'seized wing'
Can't stand the ex Navy use of 'aeroplane' for 'helicopter', Duh..
Not to mention 'plank' or 'seized wing'
Can't stand the ex Navy use of 'aeroplane' for 'helicopter', Duh..