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

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2022

"They contacted the Air Ministry, and at their request, arranged for the crew's bodies to be transported to Gibraltar where they received a full military funeral," said Wing Cdr Cameron Gair, branch president.

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2019

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

Both of Dympna’s planes were requisitioned by the Air Ministry for communications, and she was mad as a cat about it.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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