Tue Feb 05, 2019 5:02 pm
#1672037
There are hundreds of words in common usage in the English language which have their origins in our maritime past.
It is strange that aircraft had adopted naval terminology - port/starboard, rudder , cockpitetc, but when it came to nominating engine positions, say, it seems that naval numbering systems were too complex. For instance, on a four engined aircraft the stard’b engines would be No.1 ( inner) and No.3 (outer) with No2. Port inner and so on. But trying to establish which compartment you were in on a large ship had most scratching their heads - until one got used to it.
It is strange that aircraft had adopted naval terminology - port/starboard, rudder , cockpitetc, but when it came to nominating engine positions, say, it seems that naval numbering systems were too complex. For instance, on a four engined aircraft the stard’b engines would be No.1 ( inner) and No.3 (outer) with No2. Port inner and so on. But trying to establish which compartment you were in on a large ship had most scratching their heads - until one got used to it.
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