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The art of flying airplane
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airmanship
Word definitions for airmanship in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Airmanship \Air"man*ship\, n. Art, skill, or ability in the practice of aerial navigation; aircraft piloting.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Airmanship is skill and knowledge applied to aerial navigation , similar to seamanship in maritime navigation. Airmanship covers a broad range of desirable behaviors and abilities in an aviator . It is not simply a measure of skill or technique, but also ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Skill in and knowledge of the work of navigating and operating an aircraft.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the art of operating aircraft [syn: aviation ]
Usage examples of airmanship.
Each of them flies a number of circuits, varying according to his airmanship, and then I take him with me as No.
Leipzig learning their airmanship on the old passenger zeppelins, including the famous Viktoria-Luise.
For the next twenty minutes I was treated to an outstanding display of airmanship by the pilot sitting behind me.
The Wing Commander had to penetrate the veil of bitterness with which the pilot cloaked his account to see the fine airmanship that had got Robert down at all.
The flak bursts ceased exploding nearby, but Hogan was under no illusion that it was his brilliant airmanship that threw them off.
Still marveling at the sheer courage and airmanship of the Hercules crew, it took him a few seconds to notice that the incoming fire had stopped.
And though a landing aboard the carrier at night in bad weather was far and above the most challenging feat of airmanship one could attempt, making the same approach on a fixed, unmoving airfield posed a different kind of threat--just as deadly, but far more subtle.
Theoretically, we were in the middle of a goodwill airmanship contest.
The Wing Commander had to penetrate the veil of bitterness with which the pilot cloaked his account to see the fine airmanship that had got Robert down at all.
He hadn't let so much as one approach the area of operations yet, but they were two hundred kilometers away, fueled and armed, their flight crews flying to practice their airmanship and shooting live weapons as rehearsal—for some, the first live weapons they'd ever shot.
He hadn't let so much as one approach the area of operations yet, but they were two hundred kilometers away, fueled and armed, their flight crews flying to practice their airmanship and shooting live weapons as rehearsal -- for some, the first live weapons they'd ever shot.