What gender is an aircraft?

Question

What gender is an aircraft?

Answer 1

She's a girl, and she's a Bute!

Answer 2

She...because they are unpredictable, temperamental and if not treated with respect, they’ll bite you in the butt

Answer 3

I assume you mean, like ships are female right?

I've always treated my machines like males, because it feels more like we're a team out on the hunt together.  We work together and I pat him on the side like a big stallion when he's done a good job and brought me home for all his strength where I was but the rider.

Boats are what I would see as coming home to, so they remain female.  Those are just the caveman thoughts in me coming out.

Answer 4

Well, in English, ships, locomotives, automobiles, and aircraft are all feminine. In German, an aircraft is masculine (der Flugzeug), a locomotive is feminine (die Lokomotive), and an automobile is neuter (das Auto). Ships are also neuter (das Schiff). I don't speak French, Spanish, or Italian well enough to know the words in those languages, or their genders (although, if I'm not mistaken, Romance languages don't usually have the neuter gender).    

Answer 5

its a female

Answer 6

It's asexual.

Answer 7

Anything that floats if provided sufficient liquidity is femalian.

Answer 8

my god its everything its a man if its a b52 or mighty MiG-25 raining h**l

or a she if its a beauty like a concorde or a spitfire

Answer 9

As with most things of beauty in deference to the fairer s*x most including me use the female gender.

Often with perhaps not even realizing people say of an aircraft that " She is beautiful "

Also in the same vain and I mean no insult or disrespect to anybody.

I know first hand that pilots under duress have made statements such as " Come you b--ch fly!! " etc.. I believe this is not really meant as an insult  to busy for that but just a way to implore for help. Then as the danger passes no male pilot is beyond at least the desire to give their aircraft a kiss! Rational or not this for me proves for me at least the female gender of our aircraft.

Answer 10

My thought is that they can be either. If you look at the names their crews gave to their planes they are primarily female ie. Memphis Belle,Enola g*y, etc. BUT there are a few famous male names ieThe night reaper that it would be a little odd for the crew to refer to as "her" or "she"

Answer 11

The female gender.

Answer 12

female..... it dosnt matter as they are not gonna make babies  :p

Answer 13

Well, I guess it depends.

In spanish, you say - "EL Avion" -- standard translation, "THE airplane".  Now, "EL" is used to refer to the male gender.  "LA Avion", which would be the the female reference, just sounds weird.

Perhaps, the idea of airplanes being females, comes from the many male aviators, who were alone during war times and created a bond or affection to their aircraft.  Mostly represented by nose art of their girlfriends, wives or attractive female figure.  

Answer 14

Always a pretty lady

Answer 15

I've heard pilots refer to an aircraft as 'she'

Answer 16

I our language an aircraft is HE

Answer 17

In English, non-living things are always neuter.  There is a tendency among some people of romantic and sexist inclination, particularly some men and people in the military, to refer to aircraft and other vehicles as "she," but this is non-standard. This non-standard usage is in decline even among the minority of speakers who have traditionally favored it.

Answer 18

Female, ships and planes are always reffered to as "she" eg "shes going down"