1908 Bull. Aerial Exper. Assoc. Beinn Breagh (Nova Scotia) 30 Nov. Contents Description of Drome No. 4, McCurdy's Silver Dart.

1909 Times 29 Mar. 8/5 The nation which possesses the best dromes will obtain..supremacy in the air.

1913 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add.

1915 H. Rosher In Royal Naval Air Service (1916) xi. 41 I crashed into the atmosphere first thing this morning and flipped around for 55 minutes. By then I was as cold as——, so pitched in the 'drome.

1917 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 695/2 At the end of the drome she [sc. an aircraft] turns into the wind.

1930 Flight 27 June 714/1 Meanwhile a number of aircraft had arrived at the 'drome, some having flown from various part[s] of the country the previous day.

1940 N. Monks Squadrons Up! i. 14 Comes back over the 'drome, above the heads..twenty feet off the ground... The boys call this a ‘beat-up’.

1942 ‘B. J. Ellan’ Spitfire! p. ix The aerodrome..is occasionally referred to as the drome.