What is "airbridge"

n. 1 An aerobridge or jetway, a telescoping corridor from an airport terminal to an aircraft for secure boarding and disembarkation. 2 The route and aircraft used to deliver material by an airlift. 3 (context integrated circuits English) A conductor on an integrated circuit that crosses over other conductors with an air gap introduced between in the wafer manufacturing process.

Airbridge is a British progressive rock band, based in Norwich, East Anglia. Initially active during the 1980s, the band spent a long period dormant but creative during the 1990s. Various attempts were made to revive Airbridge in the late 2000s before the band settled on a new 3-piece lineup and finally released new material in 2013.

Various Airbridge members have gone on to play in LaHost, Henry Fool and the live lineup of No-Man.

Airbridge or air bridge may refer to:

• Airbridge (logistics), the route and means of delivering material from one place to another by an airlift
• Airbridge (band), an early-1980s British progressive-rock band
• AirBridge (alliance) or AiRUnion, a defunct Russian-backed consortium
• Jet bridge or airbridge, an enclosed, movable connector which extends from an airport terminal gate to an airplane
• Oriental Air Bridge Co., Ltd., a Japanese charter airline based at Nagasaki Airport
• Airbridge (ultralight aircraft manufacturer), a Russian manufacturer of ultralights, including the Airbridge Cruiser Suzuki

An airbridge is the route and means of delivering material from one place to another by an airlift.

An airbridge is the means by which an airhead is kept supplied by overflying enemy held territory. An airlift over an airbridge can also be used when the most convenient means of transport is by air, or as an additional supplement to other forms of transport.

During the Second World War, the Germans used air bridges in two major battles: the Demyansk Pocket and the Battle of Stalingrad. As Demyansk turned into a German victory with the success of the bridge, Hermann Göring convinced Hitler a similar method could be used to supply the Sixth Army at Stalingrad. However, the Luftwaffe was never able to send in the necessary 800 tons of supplies per day.

Two of the largest airbridges in history were: The Hump, (the name given by Allied pilots in the Second World War to the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains over which they flew from India to China to resupply the Flying Tigers and the Chinese Government of Chiang Kai-shek) and the Berlin Airlift, to overcome the Berlin Blockade from 24 June 1948 through to 11 May 1949.

Airbridge is a Russian aircraft manufacturer based in Moscow. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight trikes.

The company is the largest trike producer in Moscow. The company is noted for its use of modified four stroke Suzuki automotive engines.