"Airman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be thrown away; but perhaps that need not matter now. There might be a path leading to new gloves and other things. She introduced Captain Hannaford to Mademoiselle Grant, and he in turn introduced "Mr. Richard Carleton, the well-known airman," to them both. Madeleine could speak a little English, but with difficulty, and preferred French. Still, it would have been unwise to tell secrets in ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... authority that an airman recently flew from Newfoundland to the English coast, but immediately returned as he considered that the weather was unfavourable for landing. As the whole affair appears to have been hushed up it is thought that he was of ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 21, 1919. • Various
... how the hero ran away from his miserly guardian, fell in with a successful airman, and became a ...
— Fred Fenton on the Track - or, The Athletes of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... Army, the Air Force had its share of service units to absorb the marginal black airman, but postwar budget restrictions had made the enlargement of service units difficult to justify. At the same time, the Gillem Board policy as well as outside pressures had made it necessary to include a black air unit in the service's limited number of postwar air wings. However ...
— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.
... up in the sky as he had been among the rocks of the Berg. He apparently knew how to hide in the empty air as cleverly as in the long grass of the Lebombo Flats. Amazing yarns began to circulate among the infantry about this new airman, who could take cover below one plane of an enemy squadron while all the rest were looking for him. I remember talking about him with the South Africans when we were out resting next door to them after the bloody Delville Wood ...
— Mr. Standfast • John Buchan
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