Jul 17, 2009 14:15
14 yrs ago
Russian term

Самолеты

Non-PRO Russian to English Bus/Financial Aerospace / Aviation / Space
Используется ли слово "Самолеты" (Aircraft) во множ. числе на английском (Aircrafts)? Я был уверен, что нет и написал Aircraft (речь идет о договоре на поставку Самолетов, где Самолет (Самолеты) даются как термин).Но меня поправил (русскоговорящий юрист) на AircraftS.
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Jul 17, 2009 20:51: Oleksandr Melnyk changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"

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Aircraft

You were right! The plural of aircraft is aircraft, with no "s". I lived through the Second World War, I served 14 years in the Royal Air Force, and I have never known aircraft in the plural to be written as anything other than aircraft.
Peer comment(s):

agree Sabine Akabayov, PhD
3 mins
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agree Michael Moskowitz : Yep. I know of no instance when this would be wrong. (To mind comes the word "money", but that one in high finance is occasionally "moneys") Indeed - Monies - (Fingers faster than the eye)
7 mins
Thank you. Actually the plural of "money", on the rare occasions it is used, is "monies". http://www.yourdictionary.com/monies
agree John Sowerby : Definitely 'aircraft'; see Oxford and Chambers dictionaries for confirmation.
31 mins
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agree Nik-On/Off
33 mins
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agree James Fite
42 mins
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agree svetlana cosquéric
48 mins
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agree gutbuster : monies - валюты, 3 a/c were shot down in the air raid
57 mins
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agree Tokyo_Moscow
1 hr
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agree Tatiana Lammers
1 hr
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neutral Denis Guchok : cool, than half of English speaking community says wrong?
1 hr
What half would that be? On this page, not a single native English speaker has disagreed with me.
agree Timothy Riley (X)
2 hrs
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agree Iosif JUHASZ
2 hrs
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agree Serhiy Tkachuk
3 hrs
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agree Dylan Edwards
2 days 58 mins
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you, Jack!"
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Aircraft

The plural is aircrafts. Example: British aircrafts.
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aircrafts

и правильно поправил, можете мне полностью доверять, я работаю в авиации уже не один год

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Note added at 1 час (2009-07-17 16:01:37 GMT)
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да
Note from asker:
И Вы работаете с носителями языка?
Peer comment(s):

agree Olga Derenko : You can trust BBC: Radar equipment at nearby RAF Lossiemouth showed the two aircrafts' contacts merging as they came to less than 200ft from each other. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/67672...
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Aircraft / Aircrafts


Both variants seem to be acceptable.
See the BBC news:

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Note added at 5 hrs (2009-07-17 20:12:08 GMT)
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Maybe this is the case when the language is changing? Perhaps plural was not used before, but now, as we can see, native speakers use both forms.
Example sentence:

No. 263 Squadron were on their way back from Rhubarb, they were just flying over North West France when two aircrafts were shot down by Me 109s.

Two aircraft have been involved in a "minor collision" while taxiing at Heathrow, the airport's operator says..

Peer comment(s):

agree Denis Guchok : right! could also be US English and UK English
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