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aerobatics, n. pl.|-ˈbætɪks|
[After acrobatics.]
Feats of expert aviation, performed esp. for display. Hence aeroˈbatic a.; ˈaerobat, one who performs aerobatics; hence as v. intr., to perform aerobatics; also trans.
1917‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 128 Watching the aerobatics and sham fights of the pool pupils. 1918H. Barber Aerobatics ii. 58 There are many who..will never shine as aerobatic pilots. 1929N. & Q. CLVII. 359/2 The word aerobat..is now used for an airman who does ‘stunts’. 1930Flight XXII. 659/1 Mr. George Murray aerobated in Capt. Broad's special Moth. 1943T. Horsley Find, Fix & Strike 43 The pupil who ‘shows off’..or who can never take an aircraft up without aerobating it. 1955Times 20 Aug. 2/5 The merit of aerobatics is that everything depends on the skill of the pilot. 1961C. B. Smith Testing Time iii. 44 Gustav Hamel, the brilliant aerobat..was summoned by the King to Windsor to demonstrate his looping of the loop. |