air-minded

American  

[air-mahyn-did] / ˈɛərˌmaɪn dɪd /

adjective

1. interested in aviation or aeronautics.

2. favoring increased use of aircraft.

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air-minded British  

adjective

1. interested in or promoting aviation or aircraft

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Other Word Forms

• air-mindedness noun

Etymology

Origin of air-minded

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

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

But poor communications have recently made Brazil feverishly air-minded, and with U.S. assistance it has built some 600 new landing fields.

From Time Magazine Archive

In North Africa, as in every other theater of World War II, the Luftwaffe was ground-minded; the R.A.F. was rigidly air-minded.

From Time Magazine Archive

The air-minded President had strato-clippered the 2,875 miles from Lima to Bolling Field, where waited Franklin Roosevelt and pomp & circumstance.

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)