sky cavalry

[ skahy kav-uhl-ree ]

noun

1. air cavalry.

Example Sentences

He later championed arming helicopters for battle, creating a sky cavalry that he helped implement in Vietnam for counterinsurgency operations.

From Washington Post

Through old Tory Cave there surged the noise of a rising wind, silencing that weak gust afar off, now baleful, the sound of the hidden water; reverberating among the rocks, it might be taken for anything, for the hum of aircraft–for a perfect onslaught of sky cavalry!

From Project Gutenberg