Definition of "air-to-air" (aviation, of an act or action) With the participants being two or more aircraft in flight . quotations examples
Quotations 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 October 2022