airwoman
Americannoun
Gender
Is it airwoman or airperson? See -woman.
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Noun Inflected Forms
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Origin of airwoman
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Why was this honour questioned in some quarters, including by the airwoman herself?
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2022
At dawn the world's No. 1 airwoman climbed into her Lockheed Vega, warmed the big Wasp engine while soldiers herded horses, cows, goats, Mexicans out of the way.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aviator Earhart was still relatively unskilled in flying when she became famous as an airwoman.
From Time Magazine Archive
When an airwoman for the 587th gave a concert for her companions, her comrades made her a white silk dress out of parachute fabric to wear while she sang.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Canada has six CF-18 fighter jets, two surveillance planes, a refueling tanker aircraft and 600 airmen and airwomen based in Kuwait as part of the mission.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 7, 2015
The bill would also give colonel's rank to handsome, energetic Jacqueline Cochran, now chief of the WASPs, and one of the ablest of U.S. airwomen.
From Time Magazine Archive
That way, if people were transferred or killed in combat, there were always competent airwomen ready to fly the open-cockpit Po-2s on their nightly harassment missions.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
They called the airwomen in their Po-2s “heavenly creatures”; male pilots called them “little sisters.”
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
She wasn’t reaching out to airwomen in particular, but she was certainly including them, as she urged the youth of the Soviet Union to fight for their Motherland.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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