The phrase "air fighting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe combat or conflict that takes place in the air, typically involving aircraft or aerial maneuvers.
Example: "The air fighting during the battle was intense, with jets maneuvering at high speeds to gain the upper hand."
Alternatives: "aerial combat" or "airborne conflict".
Graf recorded 19 air victories in the heavy air fighting.
At the start of the war the land and sea forces used the aircraft put at their disposal primarily for reconnaissance, and air fighting began as the exchange of shots from small arms between enemy airmen meeting one another in the course of reconnoitering.
Nicholay whose hobby was collecting butterflies; Foss, who kept up a running commentary while in the air fighting off attacking planes; Major Dobbin and Lt. Hollowell, who bagged 4 planes apiece in one dogfight; Lt. Pond picking off a bomber; Major Morell, wounded in both legs; Lt. Hartley, Lt. Pratz, Treptow, Walter, Brooks, Johnson, and Irwin.
In an action that the Australian official history highlighted as an "example of cool and skilful air fighting", the DH.9s completed their bombing mission while the Camels drove off an attacking force of at least ten German Fokkers, three of the Australians including King claiming victories, without any Allied losses.
On 30 November, the London Gazette carried the announcement that Minifie had been awarded a Bar to his Distinguished Service Cross as a consequence of his "conspicuous gallantry in air fighting throughout October", that resulted in his personal destruction of "several enemy machines".
It is not known if air strikes, fighting or an attack by Isis militants was responsible for damage seen in that picture.
But even at the most basic, mechanical level — explosions, corpses flying through the air, acrobatic fighting moves — the game rarely rises beyond the mediocre.
The truth is that we would have put up with almost anything to stay in this exciting place with its air of fighting for outsiders – even though we didn't yet know we were outsiders, too.
Shells fired on to the town from surrounding hills sent thick plumes of smoke and dust rising into the air during fighting on Thursday and a voice amplified through loudspeakers, audible from the village of Hacipasa in Turkey's Hatay province, called on rebel fighters to surrender, warning of an air assault.
The UN says at least 1,850 people have been killed and more than 7,390 injured in air strikes, fighting on the ground and attacks by militants since 19 March.
