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

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air-minded

As an air-minded youngster around Chicago, chunky George T. Baker bought an old plane and barnstormed around the Midwest and Florida.

From Time Magazine Archive

So last week reasoned many an air-minded U.S. investor, offered stock in Roosevelt Field, Inc., at $18 a share.

From Time Magazine Archive

With his assistant, an air-minded University of California student named Horace Robert Byers, Rossby combed the airline's territory for "people who had a telephone and who stayed put all day."

From Time Magazine Archive

Each week air-minded Bob LeTourneau flys some 4,000 miles around the country in one of his planes to hold gospel meetings.

From Time Magazine Archive

“They’d better get the Army on the job before those babies get air-minded again!” he told himself, as he winged on into the rising sun.

From Spawn of the Comet by H. Thompson (Harold Thompson) Rich