Aircraft radios are about as private as Tunes Square: it appeared that dozens of ground-based but air-minded Midlands enthusiasts had been listening in to my conversation with Birmingham radar and had jammed the switchboard at Cambridge ringing up to find out if Colin Ross was safe. ❋ Francis, Dick (1970)
"The English are as air-minded as earth worms," Harley said. ❋ Francis, Dick (1970)
King George V had died — the air-minded Prince of Wales became king and a year later was to abdicate. ❋ Gallico, Paul (1959)
The air-minded Jew clothier at Streatham, prepared to buy an Avro to do seaside joyriding if I would fly it for him. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1958)
Canada was indeed becoming air-minded, and in 1936 civil aviation was divorced from military aviation, and placed under the Department of Transport. ❋ Unknown (1948)
What this means for the future of Canada, I won't venture to say, but you must see the strategical, the critical position you occupy in the world which will become in the near future an air-minded world. ❋ Unknown (1943)
And so far neither the enthusiasm of her air-minded contemporaries, nor the calm assumption by the younger generation that it was the only possible way to travel. had ever been able to tempt her into the sky. ❋ Unknown (1939)
One of the greatest difficulties is that, although I. am sure from the past that we are an air-minded race, the average Canadian, leaving out the north country, sees an aeroplane so seldom that he still regards flying as a dangerous sport or experiment. ❋ Unknown (1936)
I am a natural-born biped, fond of hoofing it leisurely and not air-minded. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1931)
However, the air force sees an enduring and "essential requirement for human intervention" in such operations, Bryant adds, referring to the need to keep a "highly trained, air-minded individual" in the decision-making loop before any offensive action is initiated. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The daughter of an archaeologist, Freydis became 'air-minded' after going to an air display with her brother in Newmarket in 1941. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The reason is perfectly obvious: because if they ever decide on aggression, they will be in a position, before they announce their intention, to start off from the centre of Europe, and if there are no ground forces to oppose them they will have their mobile mechanized forces across the Rhine and the Danube within 24 hours; and when this great weapon of the Atomic Bomb comes into play those enthusiastic air-minded strategists who will have to control it will find to their horror that their targets are not Stalingrad and Moscow but Rome, Athens and Paris, and possibly even London. ❋ Unknown (1949)
