Non-motoring > Airplane tracking....	Miscellaneous
Thread Author: No FM2R	Replies: 37

New Mon 12 May 14 13:59   Airplane tracking.... - No FM2R

Oh, so not so expensive or difficult after all...... www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27369288 Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 12 May 14 19:34   Airplane tracking.... - Dulwich Estate

Ahem... Aeroplane - please. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Mon 12 May 14 20:12   Airplane tracking.... - CGNorwich

Aeroplane now in decline and sounds ever so slightly quaint even in England and looks like it is on the way out. Hardly ever used in the US/Canada. tinyurl.com/n887c44 Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 12 May 14 20:13   Airplane tracking.... - R.P.

That doesn't make it right. :-) Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Mon 12 May 14 20:20   Airplane tracking.... - CGNorwich

Does make it inevitable though Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 09:11   Airplane tracking.... - Fursty Ferret

>> Aeroplane now in decline and sounds ever so slightly quaint even in England and looks >> like it is on the way out. Hardly ever used in the US/Canada. >> >> tinyurl.com/n887c44 >> I miss aerodromes. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 09:19   Airplane tracking.... - CGNorwich

>> >> I miss aerodromes. You need to brush up on your navigation. :-) Last edited by: CGNorwich on Tue 13 May 14 at 09:20 Reply to this message | Report message       2

New Mon 12 May 14 20:25   Airplane tracking.... - No FM2R

>>Aeroplane - please. I hang my head in abject shame. Sorry. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 12 May 14 21:16   Airplane tracking.... - Slidingpillar

I'm sorry, but I have zero respect for a country that takes a perfectly good noun and calls it a verb. While I know what is meant by it, I don't deplane, but disembark. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 12 May 14 23:16   Airplane tracking.... - Dulwich Estate

In UK we alight from buses and trains but not aeroplanes - I wonder why? Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 12 May 14 23:28   Airplane tracking.... - No FM2R

Because aeroplanes have always been spoken of in much the same way as ships? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 00:19   Airplane tracking.... - Armel Coussine

I was raised to say aeroplane. Airplane is American. You can sidestep the issue by saying aircraft which I tend to do now. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 12:51   Airplane tracking.... - sooty123

A gold star for AC. Aircraft is of course the correct word. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 12:54   Airplane tracking.... - CGNorwich

An airplane is of course an aircraft but an aircraft is not necessarily an airplane. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 12:56   Airplane tracking.... - sooty123

Aircraft covers all flying machines. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 13:06   Airplane tracking.... - CGNorwich

Exactly. So the two word are not interchangeable. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 13:10   Airplane tracking.... - sooty123

I never said they were. One is correct, one isn't. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 13:20   Airplane tracking.... - Focusless

Er... www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4hsC0nRvZM Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 13:21   Airplane tracking.... - CGNorwich

No they are both correct. They just mean different things. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 13:25   Airplane tracking.... - sooty123

Good lord no, any descriptive with the word 'plane isn't correct. In common usage no doubt, doesn't make it right. Perhaps ok in america, not here though. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 13:30   Airplane tracking.... - No FM2R

"Aeroplane" is a French word, but that to one side is it not the correct word to describe the big metal shiny things with big sticky out bits that fly? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 13:33   Airplane tracking.... - CGNorwich

Things is getting confused. Airplane (or aeroplane if you prefer) do not have the same meaning as aircraft and the words are are not necessarily interchangeable . Aircraft is not therefore the "correct" term. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 13:40   Airplane tracking.... - Bromptonaut

Anything that flies is an aircraft. A fixed wing and power driven aircraft is an aeroplane. An un-powered fixed wing aircraft is a glider. A rotary wing powered aircraft is a helicopter. A lighter than air aircraft is a balloon, or if powered, an airship. Other oddities like gyrocopters, hovercraft or Ekroplans are also available. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 14:09   Airplane tracking.... - sooty123

It's not confusing at all. Airplane isn't interchangable with anything because it's not correct. It may be used by some, it may have some meaning in certain circles but it's not really used in any correct terms in this country. Last edited by: sooty123 on Tue 13 May 14 at 14:10 Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Tue 13 May 14 16:19   Airplane tracking.... - Roger.

"Seaplane" IS O.K., though! Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 13:37   Airplane tracking.... - Gromit

EDIT: DE's question was "In UK we alight from buses and trains but not aeroplanes - I wonder why? " Because if you alighted from most aircraft as you do from a bus you'd break your neck with the long drop to the ground? :-) It was Pan Am started the business of speaking of their flying boats in much the same way as ships - so as to coax liner passengers onto the newfangled flying boats. Hence you 'boarded' and 'disembarked' their 'clippers', flown by 'Captains' and 'Officers' (not pilots) and served by 'pursers' and 'stewardesses' (not hostesses). Seems a long way from EasyRyan hoarding us onto flying buses flown by rent-a-pilots and getting the hard sell from trolley jockeys, doesn't it? Last edited by: Gromit on Tue 13 May 14 at 13:38 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 13:51   Airplane tracking.... - Clk Sec

>>A fixed wing and power driven aircraft is an aeroplane. Possibly so, but any technician working on such a beast would refer to it as an aircraft. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 14:26   Airplane tracking.... - R.P.

I was given a kicking by an infamous mountain rescue team leader for referring to a helicopter as a chopper...he insisted on calling it an "aircraft" - he was right of course but didn't stop him being a prize arrogant pillock. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 16:21   Airplane tracking.... - Roger.

>> >>A fixed wing and power driven aircraft is an aeroplane. >> >> Possibly so, but any technician working on such a beast would refer to it as >> an aircraft. Yes - my son-in-law always says "aircraft" and that's referring to Lynx and Apache helicopters. Not sure what he calls a drone - probably a UAV. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 14:30   Airplane tracking.... - sooty123

Deplane isn't an American term, I've heard it used here and the similar word, debus for vehicles. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 14:34   Airplane tracking.... - R.P.

On de bus off de bus ? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 14:37   Airplane tracking.... - Stuartli

>>On de bus off de bus ?>> Or someone off their trolley...? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 14:38   Airplane tracking.... - sooty123

Something like that :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 14:39   Airplane tracking.... - No FM2R

>>Deplane isn't an American term I'm pretty sure that's where I first heard it. Between John Wayne & Love Field on Southwest, I think. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 14:41   Airplane tracking.... - R.P.

I know I'm being irritating....I'm bored.... Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 14:44   Airplane tracking.... - No FM2R

ooo oo, me too, me too. What do you fancy discussing??? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 14:45   Airplane tracking.... - sooty123

Might be used there, not sure it started there. I've heard it used in my neck of the woods for quite a while. Plenty of old hands use it as well, I guess several decades it's been knocking about, not really heard it that much when I was over there. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 13 May 14 14:47   Airplane tracking.... - No FM2R

Ah well, I certainly didn't hear it several decades ago. Perhaps 10yrs. Reply to this message | Report message