But the term is generally used to refer to vehicles that take charge of steering, accelerating, indicating and braking during most if not all of a journey between two points, much in the same way aeroplanes can be set to autopilot.
The band's big summer tour is only days away (it will include two nights at the 65,000-capacity Milton Keynes National Bowl in July) and Shiflett explains that the extended Foos gang, all the wives and kids, will fly out on the same booked-out aeroplane.
Lowe disputes Davies' numbers: "When you think there are the same number of aeroplanes going over the same number of people, it doesn't make a lot of sense".
There were even two bathrooms (albeit the same size as an aeroplane loo).
A slight departure from their former sound, it features a moody bass line that'll taunt your brain for days, while its lyrics are littered with imagery from a 1970s film of the same name, about an aeroplane full of hairy spiders.
I worried, in fact, that I might not even like the books any more: that they might have to be relegated to the same place as model aeroplanes, Panini stickers and toffee bonbons.
It's a hobby, the same as painting model aeroplanes, or flying drones, or pigeon fancying.
If I ever win the Lottery (which is unlikely - I don't buy any tickets) then I'd have a garage like that, perhaps with less cars and more aeroplanes, but the same general idea.
The parachute is thereby launched into the air clear of the aeroplane and at the same time is fully opened.
