Meanings
- not comparableaeronauticsWith the participants being two or more aircraft in flight.
1 more example
The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea.
2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 5:50 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 17 Oct 2022
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveoperating between or launched from or involving rockets or aircraft in flight
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Czech vzduch-vzduch
- vzduch-vzduchfired from an aircraft in flight at another one
French air-air
- air-airfired from an aircraft in flight at another one
German Luft-Luft
- Luft-Luftfired from an aircraft in flight at another one
Polish powietrze–powietrze
- powietrze–powietrzefired from an aircraft in flight at another one
Russian во́здух-во́здух
- во́здух-во́здух (vózdux-vózdux)fired from an aircraft in flight at another one
Turkish havadan havaya
- havadan havayafired from an aircraft in flight at another one
Ukrainian пові́тря-пові́тря
- пові́тря-пові́тря (povítrja-povítrja)fired from an aircraft in flight at another one
Cite this entry
air-to-air. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/air-to-air
“air-to-air.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/air-to-air. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “air-to-air,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/air-to-air.
Source: air-to-air on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.