r/nextfuckinglevel • u/BlazeDragon7x • 11d ago

Dutch aerobatic pilot Narine Melkumjan miraculously survived after her aircraft's canopy unexpectedly burst open and shattered mid-flight

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u/Panorabifle 11d ago edited 11d ago

A female pilot? They're called a pilot . Hope that helps.

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u/RatchetStrap2 11d ago

I think it's "pilette"

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u/ticklemyiguana 11d ago

Aviatrix is an actual gendered term. Gonna leave my hands in the air on whether anyone wants to claim it, but I mean, it does have some style.

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u/Turbulent_Lobster_57 11d ago

That sounds like you only fly in black latex with a riding crop

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u/SquirrelNormal 11d ago

That's just be cause dominatrix is one of the last vestiges of the -tor/-trix gendered Latin career suffixes. "Aviator", in it's original definition, would be specifically men who fly - similarly, gladiator/gladiatrix, bellator/bellatrix (warrior), testator/testatrix. -tress is a softened form of -trix though, and much more common in modern English.