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Air power   /ɛr pˈaʊər/   Listen
Air power

noun
1.
The aggregation of a country's military aircraft.  Synonym: aviation.






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"Air power" Quotes from Famous Books



... established at a headlong pace in Franconia to develop silently, swiftly, and on an immense scale the great discoveries of Hunstedt and Stossel, and so to give Germany before all other nations a fleet of airships, the air power and the Empire ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

... other way. This is a broad principle, but it is strictly consistent in every respect with the truth. Electricity, then, is, as we have said, totally different from coal; and it can never become a substitute for it alone. Water power, air power, or what we may, for want of a better phrase, call chemical power, combined with electricity, can be used as a substitute for coal; but electricity cannot of itself be employed to do work. It is true, however, that electricity, on which work ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 303 - October 22, 1881 • Various



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