aerostation^, aerostatics^, aeronautics; balloonery^; balloon &c 273; ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation^; wing, pinion; rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting. voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus^; headway, sternway, leeway; fairway. mariner &c 269. flight, trip; shuttle, run, airlift.

Chiang's resistance against the invaders became less effective after the Japanese occupied all of China's ports; supplies could reach China only in small quantities by airlift or via the Burma Road.