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1785 H. Walpole Let. 24 June (1971) IX. 589 Air-navigation has received a great blow.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. v. 53/2 A hapless air-navigator, plunging, amid torn parachutes, sand-bags, and confused wreck, fast enough, into the jaws of the Devil!

1866 Galaxy 1 Sept. 52 To discuss the probability and possibility of air-travel in a not remote future may seem to be trespassing on the limits of good sense.

1871 Ann. Rep. Aëronaut. Soc. 62 The minds of many thinking men have been, during the present century, turned to this interesting subject of air navigation.

1873 Cassell's Mag. 8 134/1 We saw two air-boys leaning over the side of the car.

1875 Times 11 Dec. 8/3 Air travelling is rather a dangerous game.

1902 Aeronaut. Jrnl. July 51/1 Some accomplishment on the part of an air vehicle.

1906 W. M. Davis in Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 38 240 He will leave Norway for Spitzbergen in June, and expects to start on his air journey in August.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 1 July 12/1 Thirteen persons who made a successful air-trip from the Champ de Mars.

1909 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 31 Aug. 4/7 Bleriot,..who accomplished the feat of crossing the English Channel via an air traveling machine.

1911 Daily Mail 11 Sept. 3/4 An air post cannot be expected as yet to behave with the same clockwork regularity as an earth post.

1912 C. M. Doughty Clouds 119 Their air-flying enemies.

1912 Times 28 Nov. 10/3 Mr. Joynson-Hicks.—Were the flares lighted in order that our own airships should know where to alight? Mr. Churchill.—They were lighted in order to give assistance to air travellers who might be in difficulties.

1913 C. Grahame-White & H. Harper With Airmen viii. 204 It has been decided that..certain districts should be marked out on air-maps, and that aeroplanes should not be allowed to fly over them.

1913 Stamp Collecting 27 Sept. 27/2 The provisional air pilot was arguing with the Republican officials.

1915 Sphere 20 Feb. 198/1 A well developed system of meteorological reports can be of such help to the air navigator.

1915 Times 11 Sept. 6/4 Thanks to excellent air photographs, the situation of the main military buildings was located exactly.

1916 Times 19 Dec. 7/2 Air photography, as a means of charting a hostile and unsurveyed country, has been brought to a scientific pitch.

1917 Sat. Rev. 28 July 62/2 The commander estimated that the average cost of travel..would be 1½d... But airfare—the word, we believe, is original—of the future will depend on many widely conflicting factors.

1918 Times 6 Dec. 12/2 (headline) An Air Survey..Surveying the country by means of aerial photographs.

1919 Times 22 Apr. 10/4 Vedrines was a pioneer of aviation in France... It had been [his] intention..to start off as soon as possible on a prolonged air tour of the world.

1919 Daily Oklahoman 15 Oct. 1/5 An air cargo [of whisky] would be very much worth while, despite the risks.

1920 Flight 12 854/2 These air charts, which are constructed on Mercator's projection, measure approximately 20 ins. by 18 ins.

1920 Times 21 Sept. 20/1 (advt.) Air photos of a portion of the Cavenham Park Estate, Suffolk... For sale by private treaty.

1920 Flight 12 233/1 The achievements of air photography during the War were very remarkable.

1923 Geogr. Jrnl. 57 363 The field archæologist has much to gain in future from an alliance with the air-photographer, particularly in England.

1923 J. W. Simpson Ess. & Mem. 169 The confident courage that inspires air-pilots.

1923 G. Collins Valley of Eyes Unseen 326 The great strides recently made in the art of air-travel.

1924 Times 9 May 10/4 Adjusting the photographic material obtained during the course of air surveying in order to secure accuracy in the resulting map.

1927 Air Dec. 55/2 The first Birmingham Air Pageant.

1928 V. E. Clark Elem. Aviation 138 Air log, an instrument for measuring the linear travel of an aircraft relative to the air.

1928 Aerial A.B.C. Apr. 20 Air parcels may be posted at any District or Branch Post Office.

1928 Daily Express 20 June 1/3 All first impressions vanished... The boyish airgirl [sc. Amelia Earhart] became a feminine woman.

1929 Punch 20 Mar. 326/3 The Minister is satisfied that before many months we air-tourists will be taking our twelve-day flips to Kenya.

1933 Discovery Feb. 57/1 Air surveying is used extensively by the United States Geological Survey for the preparation of topographic maps.

1934 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 38 508 Vertical flight would enable air travellers to take off from the centre of the city for transfer to air liners at the outlying airports.

1943 ‘T. Dudley-Gordon’ Coastal Command xii. 115 One navigator..always takes a portable typewriter with him on a raid... So I thought that I should do my air logs on the typewriter.

1945 P. Larkin North Ship 14 The Polish air~girl in the corner seat.

1946 E. Hodgins Mr. Blandings builds his Dream House x. 141 He had reached and passed the crucial mark known, in the poetic language of the air navigator, as the Point of No Return.

1951 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IV. 290/1 An air map presents an accurate picture of the ground below, illustrating..all conspicuous geographical features... An air chart, drawn to a much smaller scale and without the elaborate detail of the map, is designed simply to enable the navigator to plot his position during the journey.

1959 Times 16 Jan. 10/5 The British idea was to develop an air-portable gun for both roles.

1959 Star 19 Feb. 9/5 Mr. Christopher Soames, Secretary for War, coined a new watchword today for Britain's all-regular Army of the future—air portability.

1959 Elizabethan Apr. 5/3 The chance of an air-trip overseas.

1959 W. A. Heflin Aerospace Gloss. 3/2 Activity in the flight of air vehicles and in the launching, guidance, and control of ballistic missiles, earth satellites, dirigible space vehicles, and the like.

1959 Notes & Queries 204 1/1 From air photographs Dr. St. Joseph was able to show the size and shape of Roman fields in the Fenlands.

1966 Times 5 Oct. 14/7 A £90,000 extension to the geography department, including an air-photo library for a collection of five million R.A.F. photographs taken during the war.

1971 Bull. (Sydney) 1 May 10/3 Some things move us deeply here in Melbourne—football, dawn Anzac parades and air pageants.

1971 R. J. P. Wilson Land Surveying viii. 164 In the past plane tabling was the method used for supplying topographical detail for maps at scales of 1:10 0 to 1:250 0, but its use in this respect has largely..been superseded by air survey.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia I. 376/2 The flight simulator taught the essentials of air navigation and blind flight to thousands of military pilots during World War II.

1977 Business Week (Industr. ed.) (Nexis) 24 Oct. 11 Panama..is losing the air tourists as well because the new jumbo jets fly directly to South America.

1990 Stamp Monthly Mar. 3/1 Other airpost stamps not shown in the supplement were released later in the year.

1990 Financial Post (Canada) 31 Oct. 3/2 Most air cargo will be carried by charter cargo airlines and by the megacarriers.

1991 Soldier 28 Oct. 21/1 This remarkable airportable armoured vehicle is a lightly armoured mini-tank with a crew of three.

1992 Calgary (Alberta) Herald 18 Jan. c8/5 The air travelling public is used to fares going down.

1994 K. Perry Business & European Community xiii. 262 Getting goods to the Community countries from the UK will inevitably involve a sea or air journey.

1994 Sunday Times (Singapore) 2 Oct. 5/1 It said air travel between North America and Southeast Asia might be affected by the ash cloud.

1995 Touch Arctic Adventure Tours '95 20/1 In Yellowknife, you'll enjoy a specialty cruise and fish fry..and your choice of bushplane or air tour of the area.

1996 Canad. Geographic Nov. 102/1 (advt.) Accurate digital maps prepared from air photos and GPS field work.

1996 Daily Tel. 17 Dec. 6/2 Aircraft without crew..used to be called unmanned air vehicles but this has fallen victim to political correctness and they are now known as uninhabited air vehicles.

1999 Oxoniensia 63 95 All traces would appear to have vanished from the meadow itself. It does not appear in modern air-photographs.

1999 Oxoniensia 63 4 Air photography in the hot summers of 1975/6..showed that Oxford has its own prehistoric ritual focus—a major barrow cemetery.

2000 Z. Sardar Consumption Kuala Lumpur 227 The tolls on the highway are less than the airfare.

2002 C. P. Panayiotopoulos et al. Panayiotopoulos Syndrome 131 The third seizure occurred..after many hours of air travelling.

2005 New Yorker 12 Dec. 42/1 For an annual fee of eighty dollars, a set of fingerprints, and an iris scan, an air traveller will be able to insert a Clear card into an A.T.M.-like kiosk and enjoy express passage through airport security.

2006 Gloucestershire Echo (Nexis) 19 Sept. 20 Former Echo photographer Norman Preece served as an air photographer during the war.

2006 Focus Nov. 84/2 The fairground ‘Booster’, originally developed to train air pilots and then adapted to scare people witless.

2006 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 18 Nov. a16 (headline) U.S. gives Canadian air tourists a brief reprieve on passports.

2007 Yukon News (Nexis) 1 June 12 The Geological Survey of Canada has conducted air surveys in the Yukon in the past, but only collected data in two remote mining areas.