Air Force

Definition: Air Force

Air Force

Noun

1. An organization of military air forces.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Air Force

Crosswords: Air Force

With all due respect, Colonel, if you don't follow us to Travis Air Force base, we'll blow you out of the sky. (Outbreak; writing credit: Laurence Dworet; Robert Roy Pool)

Anything less, you should have joined the Air Force. (Crimson Tide; writing credit: Michael Schiffer. filmmaker Quentin Tarantino revised portions of the dialogue)

It's Air Force One for crying out loud and still he gets sick! (Independence Day; writing credit: Dean Devlin; Roland Emmerich)

I'm working for the Air Force. (The Thing From Another World; writing credit: George A. Romero; John A. Russo)

Well America, there you have it, Frankenstein has just been attacked by the French Air Force and he's whipped their derrieres! (Death Race 2000; writing credit: Ib Melchior; Robert Thom)

If it works, it's obsolete. (references; author: Air Force)

Patrol Dogs of the United States Air Force (1968)

McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force (1965)

Air Force (1943)

The United States Army Air Force Band (1942)

Air Force One: The Final Mission (2003)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Absorbing Air Force Fighter Pilots: Parameters, Problems, and Policy Options (reference)

• Air Force One (reference)

• Flying Lessons, Ambulances, and Other Air Force Vignettes (reference)

• The Air Force (U.S. Military Series) (reference)

• U.S. Air Force Search and Rescue Survival Training Af Regulation 64-4 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Air Force Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (reference)

• Air Force Almanac (reference)

• Air Force Sergeants Association Membership (reference)

• Air Force Magazine (reference)

• Air Force Times (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Air Force One (reference)

• Air Force One (Superbit Collection) (reference)

• Massed Bands of the Royal Air Force (reference)

• Air Force One, Flight II - The Planes and the Presidents (reference)

• The Wild Blue Yonder - The United States Air Force Story (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Golden Jubilee of the Belgian Air Force (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Air Force Delta Storm (reference)

• Flight Mania (ATF, Longbow, USNF, F-15, Nuclear Strike, Israeli Air Force) (reference)

• Israeli Air Force (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Combined bar and line graph showing annual number and rate of suicides among U.S. Air Force personnel--United States, 1980-1999.Credit: CDC.

Army Air Force 3-lens camera.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Martin B-10-B bomber used to test nine-lens camera Wright-Patterson Army Air Force Base.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Australian Department of Science and U.S. Air Force Solar and Radio Observatory at Learmonth. Looking east.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.Credit: Geodesy - Measuring the Earth.

Herndon site, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.Credit: Geodesy - Measuring the Earth.

Air Force Geophysical Laboratory at Sudbury, Massachusetts.Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

F/A-22 Raptor performs a test mission over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

President George W. Bush met with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.

Air Force Dump, Amchitka.Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It shall be the duty of the Council in such case to recommend to the several Governments concerned what effective military, naval, or air force the Members of the League shall severally contribute to the armed forces to be used to protect the covenants of the League. (reference)

This would perhaps double the mobility of the American Navy and Air Force. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Special large planes maintained by the United States Air Force can be called upon to deliver the insecticide(s) chosen for such emergencies. (references)

Business

The UAE air force has about 1,800 personnel. (references)

The Polish Air Force is grappling with rapidly aging Soviet-era aircraft. (references)

Below are listed some of the defense electronics products currently deployed by the air force. (references)

Civil Liberties

Sri Lanka

The Government criticized the attack; it subsequently arrested and indicted two air force personnel in the case, including the bodyguard of a former Commander of the Air Force. (references)

Economic History

Luxembourg

Luxembourg has no navy or air force. (references)

Latvia

The army, navy and air force comprise 1,800 pesonnel. (references)

Human Rights

Morocco

The military tribunal sentenced Adib to the maximum prison term of 5 years and expelled him from the air force. (references)

Peru

In 2000 Jose Luis Payano joined the air force and complained to his parents that air force officers physically had abused him. (references)

Sri Lanka

On September 20, Sivagnanam Manohari, living near Batticaloa, apparently was shot and killed by air force personnel while fishing. (references)

Indigenous People

Denmark

In 1999 a court ruled that the Government unjustly resettled Greenland Inuits in 1953 in order to accommodate the expansion of a U.S. Air Force base in northwest Greenland. (references)

Minorities

Peru

Both the navy and the air force are believed widely to follow unstated policies that exclude blacks from the officer corps. (references)

Political Economy

Honduras

The Honduran Armed Forces (HOAF) include the army, the air force, and the navy. (references)

Women

Israel and the occupied territories

In response to a High Court of Justice ruling, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) since 1996 has permitted women to enter pilot training. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "air force": air Force Academy ♦ air force officer ♦ air force one ♦ army air force ♦ general of the air force ♦ Hill Air Force B ♦ marshal of the royal air force ♦ Reese Air Force ♦ Royal Air Force ♦ tactical air force. Additional references.

Albanian

forca ajrore (air corps). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قوة جوية, ‏سلاح الطيران. (various references)

Bulgarian 

военновъздушни сили, военна авиация. (various references)

Chinese 

空軍 , 空防 (air defense). (various references)

Czech

vojenské letectvo, letectvo. (various references)

Danish

taktisk luftstyrke (tactical air force). (various references)

Dutch

luchtstrýdkrachten, luchtmacht (aviation). (various references)

Esperanto

flugarmeo. (various references)

Finnish

ilmavoimat. (various references)

French

aviation, armée d'air, forces aériennes (Swiss Air Force). (various references)

German

luftwaffe (airforce, Swiss Air Force). (various references)

Greek 

τακτική αεροπορία (tactical air force). (various references)

Hebrew 

חיל �"אויר, אוירי�". (various references)

Hungarian

légierõ (aviation). (various references)

Italian

aviazione militare, aeronautica militare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

飛行隊 (flying corps), 空軍 , エール大学 (acquired immune deficiency syndrome, aerobic dancing, aerobicise, aerobics, aerodynamics, aerogram, aerosol, aid, AIDS, AIDS virus, air, air bag, air brake, air breathing engine, air cargo, air check, air circulating system, air cleaner, air compressor, air conditioner, air conditioning, air curtain, air cushion, air dome, air door, air girl, air gun, air hostess, air mail, air mattress, air pad, air pageant, air people, air pocket, air pot, air pump, air rifle, air right, air service, air shoot, air shuttle, air sick, air suspension, air terminal, air towel, airborne, airbrush, Airbus, airline, airport, airport tax, airsick bag, airsickness, airway, alias, alien, Edam cheese, eight, eight beat, exercising with aerobics, hit point, home page, HP, on-air monitor, stewardess, Yale University). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くうぐ�", ひ�"うたい (flying corps), エアフォース . (various references)

Manx

shirveish aer, armee aer. (various references)

Pig Latin

airay orcefay

Portuguese

aviação (aeronautics, aviation, flying), forças aéreas. (various references)

Romanian

aviaţie militarã. (various references)

Russian 

военно-воздушные силы, авиация (aeronautics, aircraft, aviation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ratno vazduhoplovstvo. (various references)

Spanish

aviación (aeronautics, aviation, aviations), fuerzas aéreas. (various references)

Swedish

flygvapen (airforce, air-force). (various references)

Turkish

hava kuvvetleri (air arm, air corps). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: corrie, fairer, farcer, farcie, ferric, fiacre, forcer, orrice, racier.

-3 letters: afire, afore, airer, areic, carer, ceria, corer, coria, crier, crore, erica, facer, farce, farci, farer, feria, firer, force, friar, frier, frore, ocrea, racer, ricer, rifer.

-4 letters: acre, aero, arco, cafe, care, carr, cero, ciao, cire, coif, coir, core, corf, face, fair, fare, faro, fear, fiar, fice, fico, fire, foci, fora, fore, frae, froe, orca, orra, race, rare, rear, reif, rice, rife, roar.

-5 letters: ace, air, arc, are, arf, car, cor, ear, era, err, far, fer, fie, fir, foe, for, fro, ice, ire, oaf, oar, oca, ora, orc, ore, rec, ref, rei, ria, rif, roc, roe.

+2 letters: refraction.

+3 letters: formicaries, microflorae, rarefaction, refractions, vociferator.

+4 letters: ferrocyanide, forereaching, rarefactions, refractories, refractorily, vociferators.

+5 letters: carboniferous, certificatory, confraternity, ferrocyanides, ferromagnetic, microfilariae, rarefactional, reinforceable.

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