Correct term in English language: "aircraft carrier"

At several different locations throughout the COW website, the term "airplane carrier" is used. The correct term is "aircraft carrier," NOT "airplane carrier." The term "aircraft carrier" has a very specific meaning in the English language: it is a warship whose primary function is carrying, launching and recovering combat aircraft. "Airplane carrier" has no such specific meaning, and could mean just about any vehicle that transports an airplane, from cargo ships or tractor trailer trucks that carry disassembled aircraft, to an over-size cargo plane such as a C-5 or C-17 that is capable of carrying a helicopter or disassembled fixed-wing airplane in its cargo bay.

I know this issue has been raised before, here in the Forum and elsewhere, and it's time that we fixed it. Thanks.

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@freezy: This is not the first time this has been reported -- in English, the use of the term "airplane carrier," when one actually means aircraft carrier, sounds illiterate. Please correct this. I most recently saw the incorrect term again in the list of blueprints.

Thanks.

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