The word 'midair' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use 'midair' to refer to a point or area that is located somewhere between the ground and the sky. For example: The acrobat performed a thrilling somersault in midair.
(When an engine failed in midair on the state aircraft, and one of the press corps turned white, he quipped: "What's the matter? Aren't you in a state of grace?") With his love of debate he could argue people half to death, and bully them too.But then he had to wrestle with that domineering self, because both ambition and pride might be mere self-gratification.
Gulliver, too, has no interest in listening to other people yak away midair.
WHEN a Rolls-Royce engine on the world's biggest airliner exploded in midair last November, disaster was narrowly averted.
Cluster bombs consist of an outer casing containing dozens of small bomblets; the casing splits open in midair, releasing a shower of bomblets that explode upon impact.
In Your Strange Certainty Still Kept (1996), droplets of water were frozen in midair through the use of a perforated hose and strobe lights.
While midair collisions have occurred away from airports, the scenario most feared by safety analysts is a midair collision near or at an airport because of a traffic control misunderstanding.
Radar and plane-to-ground communications are used by air traffic control systems to predict midair conflicts and suggest actions to resolve them.
Two pilots trying to avoid a midair collision clearly will benefit if they can communicate, and the degree of communication allowed between them may even determine whether or not they will crash.
Others, however, engage in kikik battles; with the strings of their kites coated with ground glass, competitors strive to sever in midair the strings of their opponents' kikik.
One infamous incident was the downing of an American airliner by Libyan intelligence agents over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988; the midair explosion killed 259 passengers and 11 people on the ground.
Gulls and shorebirds are occasional hazards at airports, where airplanes have been damaged by midair collisions.
