aircraftsman
Americannoun
Gender
Is aircraftsman gender-neutral? See -man.
Etymology
Origin of aircraftsman
First recorded in 1915–20; aircraft + s 1 ( def. ) + -man
Example Sentences
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At RAF Wattisham, Peter Nash was a senior aircraftsman with 29 Squadron and he distinctly remembers preparing three Lightning fighter aircraft to scramble.
From BBC • Jul. 7, 2018
In an effort to escape the fame or, as he sometimes saw it, his notoriety he enlisted in the RAF as aircraftsman John Hume Ross.
From BBC • Aug. 16, 2013
England a hitchhiking aircraftsman thumbed a car in the country, got a 20-mile ride with grandmotherly Queen Mary, the beauteous Duchess of Kent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Skeptical Canadian authorities had checked up on Buckley's record, found that he was a plain aircraftsman who had been washed out of a pilot-training course in England, then deserted.
From Time Magazine Archive
There Colonel Vincent went into a huddle with a California aircraftsman named Colonel E. J. Hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
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