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"first" meaning it hasn't occurred in the writer's lifetime ?

• turnsout 2y ago
  Is there another that they're not thinking of? The Concorde was a joint government project.
  • davrosthedalek 2y ago
    Hmm, in my understanding of language, a gov project would be called "public", which contrast with "private". Civil contrasts with military/religious.
  • dragonwriter 2y ago
    “Civil” in reference to aircraft and aviation does not mean “unconnected to government”.
  • sofixa 2y ago
    That doesn't make it a military project (with regards to aviation, there are military and civil planes). Same applies to the Tu-144.
• JPKab 2y ago
  TechCrunch has degenerated into a clickbait site with horrifically unprofessional "journalists" working there. You get god awful articles like this, where "civil" is used instead of "civilian" and the author is too addicted to scrolling TikTok to be aware of the fact that this thing called the Concorde used to exist before he was born, rendering his mangled statement to be factually inaccurate.
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  • kgwgk 2y ago
    > "civil" is used instead of "civilian" How is that a problem? For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civil_aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civil_aircraft uses both "civil aircraft" and "civilian aircraft".