Crossword clues for aviator
aviator
- Post, e.g
- Lindbergh, e.g
- Joystick user
- High flyer
- Ace high?
- Red Baron, for one
- Orville Wright, famously
- One with wings
- Lindbergh was one
- High-minded sort?
- Head-in-the-clouds sort?
- Fly guy
- Flighty sort?
- Either Wright brother
- Crop duster, e.g
- Amelia Earhart, for one
- Ace, for one
- Smilin' Jack, for one
- Skipper in the air
- Professional whose career is taking off?
- Playing card brand introduced after Lindbergh's flight
- Person with wings
- One with his or her head in the clouds
- One whose career is taking off?
- One who's often high
- One who takes off a lot
- One taking off regularly
- One skilled in plane talk
- One on the stick
- Nepal V.I.P
- Lindy, for one
- Lindbergh, for one
- Lindbergh or Richtofen
- Joystick operator
- John Wayne, in "The High and the Mighty"
- Either Mr. Wright
- Earhart or Lindbergh
- Colonel Gabreski is one
- Certain soloist?
- Beurling or Bishop
- Banking expert
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, for one
- Amelia Earhart, e.g.
- Post, e.g.
- Pilot
- Snoopy, as he sometimes fancied himself
- Ace, e.g
- One passing a course with flying colors?
- One who may raise a flap
- Wilbur or Orville Wright
- Professional who may wear goggles
- An ace is a good one
- Post, for one
- One whose idea may be taking off
- ___ sunglasses
- Lindbergh, e.g.
- Howard Hughes, for one
- Skilled banker?
- Nepal V.I.P.
- Someone who operates an aircraft
- Wiley or Post
- Flier
- Odom or Post
- Howard Hughes was one
- Post was one
- Wiley Post or John Alcock
- Post or Balbo
- Birdman
- Adm. Byrd was one
- Post or Lindbergh
- One flying out of Yugoslavia to Romania
- One flies along a road over hill
- One flies aircraft at first by way of rocky peak
- Woman in a flying machine
- A pilot once discovered a sex toy after clearing out bedroom
- Pilot entering Alaska via Toronto
- Pilot coming from Malaga, via Torremolinos
- Frequent flier
- High flier
- Banking expert?
- The Red Baron, for one
- Cockpit figure
- Rickenbacker, for one
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aviator \A"vi*a`tor\, n.
An experimenter in aviation.
A flying machine. [archaic]
The driver or pilot of an aircraft, especially of an airplane.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"aircraft pilot," 1887, from French aviateur, from Latin avis (see aviary) + -ateur. Also used c.1891 in a sense of "aircraft." Feminine form aviatrix is from 1927; earlier aviatrice (1910), aviatress (1911).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An aircraft pilot. The use of the word may imply claims of superior airmanship, as in ''navy aviator'' vs. ''air force pilot''. 2 (context obsolete English) An experimenter in aviation. 3 (context obsolete English) A flying machine.
WordNet
Wikipedia
An aviator is a person who flies aircraft.
Aviator may also refer to:
Aviator was a short-lived British progressive rock band.
Aviator was the debut album by rock band Aviator. Released in early 1979, Aviator was co-produced by the band and Robin Lumley from the British jazz-fusion band, Brand X. The studio album was released with a total run time of 43:32.
Aviator is a Ukrainian band, which was formed in 2005 in Kyiv, Ukraine. From the beginning, the group occupied a niche of the romantic character of pop-music and it still remains a leader of the field. The release of the debut album V efire (On air) made a splash on the national show-business market: for the first week, the band sold over 50,000 of copies, and, in total, the album has been sold in over 200,000 copies.
The members of the band are: Igor Voevutskiy, Andriy Storozh, Dmytro Todoriuk.
Usage examples of "aviator".
After a while, too, the word got around among the women that all the aviator major wanted was somebody in his sack, and that marriage was the last thing on his mind.
He had earned his own wings as a Naval Aviator at Pensacola, and had tried to get back in the Navy after Pearl Harbor.
He was a very rich, and very nice, really, young Marine Aviator, and he told me he was in love with me.
As he reached it, a fellow chief, this one a chief aviation pilot with the wings of a Naval Aviator on his shirt, appeared in the fuselage bubble gingerly holding a canvas suitcase in his fingers.
Charley Galloway is the skipper, and he appreciates what a fine fellow and all-around splendid aviator I am.
Warning you beforehand that I have orders to appear at San Diego as soon as I can get there, with any qualified Marine Aviator I choose to take with me.
MAG-21, Sergeant Ward had been impressed with the Marine Aviator who had spent a year as a guerrilla in the Philippines.
He felt like a newbie aviator back at flight school in Pensacola again.
It was one of the most demanding maneuvers an aviator had to master, and it had been nearly two years since Magruder had been called upon to attempt a midair refueling.
If he really was starting to sound like Tombstone, he thought, then he really had made something of himself as an aviator after all.
He had joined the Navy to become an aviator, to fly a fighter like his father and his uncle before him.
Tombstone kept his descent constant at five hundred feet per minute and relied on the advice of the LSO, a veteran aviator with a much better perspective on the approach than Magruder had himself, to keep him on track.
It was never considered wise to keep a failed aviator on his old ship.
All other things being equal, it was the aviator who kept his cool and made the fewest mistakes who got home in one piece.
He was just the man to call on now, cool and cautious, the kind of aviator who could time a maneuver right down to the second.