air-minded

American  

[air-mahyn-did] / ˈɛərˌmaɪn dɪd /

adjective

1. interested in aviation or aeronautics.

2. favoring increased use of aircraft.

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air-minded British  

adjective

1. interested in or promoting aviation or aircraft

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Other Word Forms

• air-mindedness noun

Etymology

Origin of air-minded

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

The Times, which led the campaign to make that happen, decreed that the city was “air-minded.”

From Los Angeles Times

And “air-minded” Los Angeles thereafter never looked down — or back.

From Los Angeles Times

Missouri's air-minded Senator Stuart Symington has called him "one of the world's two foremost authorities on strategic airpower"�the other being Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. John Gibson Winans, 52, an air-minded professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin, was demonstrating last week the first part of a pet theory: that airplanes should take off and land in circles, as tethered models do.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Panair do Brazil, subsidiary of Pan American Airways, put a new issue of stock on sale in S�o Paulo, hundreds of air-minded Brazilians stood all night in the street waiting to buy the certificates.

From Time Magazine Archive