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Air Ministry

American  

noun

  1. (in England) the department of government administering all civil and military matters concerning aviation.


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She had seen the resident psychiatrist at the Air Ministry, who recommended she be released "immediately" from her home military department, the WAAF.

From BBC Oct. 13, 2023

Sempill offered a ride to another passenger, the aeronaut Charles Dollfus, an attaché with the French Air Ministry.

From Slate Aug. 2, 2022

At a dance in Worcester, he met Iris Leaworthy, a young, white Welsh woman who worked as a civil servant in the Air Ministry, and the two bonded over the surprising similarities of their upbringings.

From The New Yorker Oct. 9, 2019

For example, a British Air Ministry scientific advisor, E. V. Truefitt, presented his countryman, oceanographer George Deacon, with “one or two questions which have come up in odd conversations.”

From Salon Apr. 27, 2013

The Air Ministry was in a panic in August 1939, scrambling for women to do radio work as it dawned on them how many men they’d need to do the flying.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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