A(ir)(ero)planes

Jefferson Airplane, perhaps, suggests the 1960s solution (to the air/aero/plane thing), though if anyone could suggest how this slang was supposed to be spelt, that would help. I mean, this was meant to be genuine. (For those not informed, this refers to US West Coast).

A Jefferson AIrplane is an kind of roach clip--a paper match split to hold the roach. It was always "Airplane." (Uh, of course I have not personal knowledge of this, um, I'm just reporting what I, uh, read somewhere.)

There is dispute whether or not the band was named after the roach clip. The FOAK says
>The origin of the group's name is often disputed.... An urban legend claims [the roach clip] was the origin of the band's name, but according to band member Jorma Kaukonen, the name was invented by his friend Steve Talbot as a parody of blues names such as Blind Lemon Jefferson.[8] A 2007 press release quoted Kaukonen as saying:
>I had this friend [Talbot] in Berkeley who came up with funny names for people," explains Kaukonen. "His name for me was Blind Thomas Jefferson Airplane (for blues pioneer Blind Lemon Jefferson). When the guys were looking for band names and nobody could come up with something, I remember saying, 'You want a silly band name? I got a silly band name for you!'

Edited by: Grace Slick

So, go here now, after all that, though I'm sure it will be airplane these days...

#12 -- I can never decide between that and the original.

I saw the Airplane in person, back in the 1960s, just after Grace Slick had joined them. Also Big Brother (with Janis), Quicksilver, Moby Grape, the Dead, and others I've forgotten.

I also saw them in concert in Toronto -- it must have been 1968. God, I'm old!

The French have les aéroports and Britain has Aeros (a chocolate bar), if this helps.

I'm terribly jealous nutrax. I've seen the Dead numerous times but, by the time I got into the others it was just too late. I've been told numerous times that I was born a bit too late. There was no way my parents would have taken me to Woodstock.

And then there's jewellery/jewelry, travelling/traveling, further/farther, axe/ax, and a trillion more.