1. airlift - Noun
2. airlift - Verb
transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
Source: WordNetFood is airlifted into Bosnia Source: Internet
According to Abraham Rabinovich, "while the American airlift of supplies did not immediately replace Israel's losses in equipment, it did allow Israel to expend what it did have more freely". Source: Internet
A communication said that Swiss consul-general (Bengaluru) Sebastien Hug oversaw the mission to airlift the Swiss nationals along with Syed Ibrahim, honorary consul of the German honorary consulate in Thiruvananthapuram. Source: Internet
After communist Simba rebels took white residents of the city of Stanleyville hostage, the U.S. and Belgium developed a joint rescue mission that used the C-130s to airlift and then drop and air-land a force of Belgian paratroopers to rescue the hostages. Source: Internet
After the disaster, 30,000 people of a then population of 46,000 were evacuated, in what turned out to be the biggest airlift in Australia's history. Source: Internet
After two months on their own, Moscow aided the Cuban mission with the USSR engaging in a massive airlift of Cuban forces into Angola. Source: Internet