airman

[ air-muh n ]

/ ˈɛər mən /

an aviator.

U.S. Air Force. an enlisted person of one of the three lowest ranks (airman basic, airman, airman first class).

a member of a military aircrew.

(in other countries) an enlisted person in the air force.

Origin of airman

1870–75, for an earlier sense; air¹ + -man, on the model of seaman

We talk about four pillars of an airman in comprehensive airmen fitness.

U.S. Air Force: Swear to God—or Get Out |Dave Majumdar |September 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
My uncle, Wendell Grimke Freeland, my mother's brother, is 83 years old and here at the Inauguration as a Tuskegee airman.

The Daily Beast D.C. Diary |The Daily Beast |January 19, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
"Well, fate plays no small part in an airman's life," returned Tom.

Air Service Boys in the Big Battle |Charles Amory Beach
And now comes the moment when the airman, drawing back his elevating lever, seeks to raise his craft from the water into the air.

The Aeroplane |Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper

The airman goes out to seek his enemy: he must be full of initiative.

The War in the Air; Vol. 1 |Walter Raleigh.
And some of them were chased by a British airman at a place called Ennemain.

From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 |Philip Gibbs
An airman, flying in a wind, is rather in the position of a man who puts to sea in a small boat when waves are high.

The Aeroplane |Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper

airman

/ (ˈɛəmən) /

an aviator, esp a man who serves in his country's air force

airwoman, fem n