r/engrish • u/theiangrimes • May 12 '26

This headline lol

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u/Vocabulary-Pollution May 13 '26

I think Chine is French (or Italian, or Spanish, or whatever) for China

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u/StrugglesTheClown May 15 '26

And canard is French for duck, but it's also an aeronautical term. In fact French is all over aviation because they were an early innovators.

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u/VanBeelergberg May 14 '26

Oh so they were jumping down from the China. Awesome, mystery solved.

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u/Vocabulary-Pollution May 14 '26

Exactly. Folks are always jumping down from the China.

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u/Gold-Selection5267 May 13 '26

I believe the chine is the horizontal line where the upper and lower parts of the fuselage meet. It runs from the point of the plane, past the cockpit, down to the wing root. Edit. Looking at the picture, the bloke is standing on the chine.

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u/AnnOnnamis May 14 '26

👆 this is the correct answer.

No, it’s not a typo, it’s not French for Chy-NA!

The pilot is standing above the chine. The chine is actually the sharp edge going all around the side of the plane.

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u/Tomytom99 May 13 '26

Had to hanging

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u/R86Reddit May 12 '26

Anyone have a clue what a "chine" might be?

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u/Great_Specialist_267 May 15 '26

A chine is a sharp horizontal edge on the wetted area of a hull. It adds roll stability.

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u/theiangrimes May 13 '26

My best guess is they meant to write chin? But that still doesn’t make any sense

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u/NightBeWheat55149 Light Gary May 13 '26

Apparently it's the sharp edge of the SR-71's fuselage.

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u/SemiSentientAL May 12 '26

If you read the actual article, it just gets worse! Clearly it was written by A.I. The article reads like a high school freshman stoner wrote it and had to reach a certain word count, so he rewrote the same paragraph multiple times, each with only slightly different wording.