air-launchingn. the technique of launching a missile, etc., from an aircraft in flight.
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1951 Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc.10 217 The ‘Skyrocket’..adopted the technique of air-launching from a B.29.
2005 Aviation Week & Space Technol. (Nexis) 24 Oct. 56Air launching has a history. In 1974 a partially-fueled Minuteman ICBM was dropped and ignited from a C-5 transport.