Turtle n Peeps wrote:
Not according to my aircraft maintenance instructors at BCIT and in my over 45 years in aviation, engines were never referred to as motors, so I guess it depends on where you come from.
Well I guess you and your aircraft maintenance instructor are going to have to change a lot of words. :W
Enginecycle
Enginehome
Outboard Engine
Engine vehicle
Engine pool
Like I said, the word motor is all inclusive. I can call a gasoline engine a motor but I can't call an electric motor an engine.
You might show your instructor the following:
mo·tor
/?m?t?r/
Noun
A machine, esp. one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for some other device... :)
How about hydraulic motors? What does your dictionary say about them?
My instructors were not wrong, in aviation the the term motor is never used to describe powerplants. Gas turbine motor. I don' t think so.
