"Agh!" wrote in message
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Netko wrote:

Agh! wrote:
Wayne Paul wrote:
"Mitchell Holman" wrote...
Wayne Paul wrote:

technically in the USA a glider isn't an airplane.

At least until that little door opens up and a
little motor pops out............

It still isn't an airplane. It is a "self-launched" glider.

It is, of course, an aeroplane.

Or, more pedantically, it's an 'Aeroplane (Self-launching Motor
Glider)', at least in the UK.

The (UK's) Air Navigation Order 2005 contains a table entitled
Classification of Aircraft, a copy of which I attach for general
interest (if there is any).

Though not shown on the table, microlights and powered parachutes
are classed as 'Aeroplane (Landplane)' and hang gliders are classed
as 'Glider'.

This picture actually comes the CAA's CAP 393 as the Order's table
(on-line version) appears to have been screwed up a little.

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP393.pdf

Yes, thank you. An 'airplane' is an abomination.

Indeed. An "airplane" is an Americanism and an abomination.

And a "plane/plain" is where the rain in Spain mainly falls...