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%
Voters: 102. This poll is closed
What do you call what you fly?
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"The Chippy" (not a reference to fish suppers), or "SL". And it's an aeroplane, not a plane, as has been rightly pointed out out by Stik re Douglas Bader.
Never 'Airplane'; but then I always use the Railway Station when travelling by train, never the 'Train Station'.
SSD
Never 'Airplane'; but then I always use the Railway Station when travelling by train, never the 'Train Station'.
SSD
Supercharged PPRuNer
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It’s an aircraft, and it’s an ‘it’, except for the extremely rare occasions when I grease one, whereupon it becomes ‘you beauty’, and the much more frequent occasions when it oils its plugs up, at which point it becomes ‘a dog’.
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I tend to call it an aircraft. Basically because it is easier and less long-winded to say than aeroplane or 'airplane' which just doesn't sound like a proper word.
OK- so we've heard that someone calls it a jet, so who calls it an airliner?!
Regards Trislander
OK- so we've heard that someone calls it a jet, so who calls it an airliner?!
Regards Trislander
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India Juliett, to anyone else in our group or at our base field.
And (although that base name includes the word "aerodrome"), very occasionally IJ may be called a plane - not an aeroplane and certainly not an airplane - it's G registered you know.
And (although that base name includes the word "aerodrome"), very occasionally IJ may be called a plane - not an aeroplane and certainly not an airplane - it's G registered you know.
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When I first saw this forum, I thought you meant the nickname of the contraption........boats have names, airplanes should too. Since the last two letters of the tail number are "Delta Sierra"....I affectionately call "it" "Dog S**t".....and it's an airplane.
