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ramp or apron edit
The correct ICAO term is apron. Apron should be the primary term. Apron — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.210.12.209 (talk) 04:57, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
Tarmac-as-airfield-surface edit
"his hold-all would contain anything up to twenty pounds of high-quality local opium for delivery to another contact, who would be waiting on the tarmac at Singapore."
Airline Detective: The Fight Against International Air Crime p174, (I think). Donald E. W. Fish London, Collins, 1962
Looking further, I'm finding lots of stuff WWII, pre-war, even. This has nothing to do with recent news items. Anmccaff (talk) 23:49, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Linguistic purism edit
Article currently reads in part
The airport apron or apron, also incorrectly referred to as the tarmac...
which surely at least needs a citation to verify that the term tarmac is incorrect.
More likely this is linguistic purism. Wikipedia is not the place to fix the English language. Andrewa (talk) 16:12, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
A similar and also unsourced claim is here
Similarly, the term "tarmac" is sometimes colloquially misapplied to asphalt roads or aircraft runways.
which IMO requires at least a source to say that the term is misapplied.
And not just any source will do. These are claims about linguistics. Certainly some experts on airports or roadmaking would like to impose their personal or even professional opinions on the population, but we use English as it exists generally, which is not necessarily as some small group of speakers would prefer. Andrewa (talk) 16:40, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
Inclined Plane edit
Does this have ANYTHING to do with the rest of the article? Other than the similarity of terminology? I'm referring to the fourth paragraph. --164.58.21.70 (talk) 18:18, 26 September 2019 (UTC)