One whose business is taking off?

Usage examples of airman.

He pressed the trigger-button again to test the guns but failed to feel the vibration that every airman feels with his whole body when he discharges his guns.

He got out from under the enemy craft, but the German airman pressed his trigger in time.

By right, as an old friend who had found the airman in the forest, Seryonka was walking solemnly in front of the stretcher, laboriously pulling his feet, encased in the huge felt boots left him by his father, out of the snow and sternly scolding the other white-toothed, grimy-faced, fantastically ragged boys.

That thought, so ordinary for an airman on hectic days, made him shudder now that he was excluded from the life of the airfield.

The airman could not understand how this man could suppress such frightful pain and muster such energy, cheerfulness and vivacity.

At night, when everybody was asleep, he and the famous airman Lyapidevsky found and rescued the Chelyuskin expedition, and with Vodopyanov he landed heavy aircraft on the pack ice at the North Pole, arid with Chkalov opened the unexplored air route to the United States across the Pole.

He remembered the instructor at the air club speak about a Civil War airman who had short legs and had small blocks of wood attached to the pedals of his machine in order to be able to reach them.

Second, he must recover the fighting qualities of an airman and therefore develop himself physically by such gymnastic exercises as a bedridden man is capable of doing.

The artificial feet of an airman unknown to her did not interest her very much.

After that, the airman, with a slightly rolling gait, quickly descended the stairs and without looking back strode down the asphalted embankment past the long hospital building.

With contracted eyebrows, the airman would watch the intricate designs she traced on the floor with her small, pretty feet.

Chief of Staff of the school, an old air wolf who had been an airman as far back as the Civil War, was fond of saying.

He noticed that when he veered his feet delayed, did not achieve that harmonious coordination that an airman acquires like a sort of reflex.

And so I say, we cannot, we have no right to treat you as an ordinary airman, no right, do you understand?

One airman was injured, and two mechanics and several sentries were killed at their posts.