air-minded
Americanadjective
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interested in aviation or aeronautics.
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favoring increased use of aircraft.
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of air-minded
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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Just as ground armies must be air-minded, so must air forces be ground-minded.
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
Only when air-minded Admiral Arthur Radford became chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff did the U.S. adopt the New Look.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ike has always been air-minded, and early in his military career, in 1917, he thought seriously of transferring to the Air Corps.
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 Rich, H. Thompson (Harold Thompson)
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