WordNet
n. the craft of building and repairing airplanes
Usage examples of "airplane mechanics".
The Nipponese garrison on Kinakuta had long since been bypassed by the war, and like the other bypassed garrisons, had turned what energies they had left to vegetable farming, and waiting for the extremely sporadic arrivals of submarines, which, towards the close of the war, the Nipponese used to haul the most extremely vital cargo and to ferry certain desperately needed specialists, like airplane mechanics, from one place to another.
He watched the people of the base going by, the airplane mechanics in their green fatigues and fur-lined leather jackets, natty hying officers in dark greens and violet overcoats, the German laborers in their old clothing, all hunched against the sharp November wind.
The clerks who had driven him here, the airplane mechanics, there were too many people watching them.