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		jccooper 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Boom's XB-1 becomes first civil aircraft to go sup... The "civil" here is as in "civil aviation". Aviation is broadly either civil or state aviation. Presumably it's derived from "civilian".

aidenn0 12 months ago [–]

British Airways and Air France (both of which operated the Concorde) are both definitely civil aviation.

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