flight path
the trajectory of a moving aircraft or spacecraft relative to a fixed reference.
Origin of flight path
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How to use flight path in a sentence
The flight path remained close to the Indonesian archipelago, well within what is the normal reach of air traffic control radar.
The flight path of the Air France Airbus A330 was known with some precision, as was the time of its disappearance.
It’s Scandalous to Keep Using Black Boxes in Airplanes Like MH370 | Clive Irving | April 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOne of his graphics shows that at the heart of the storm the roiling clouds rose to 20,000 feet above the flight path.
These maps are now so sophisticated that they accurately pinpoint not only the time left to landing but the exact flight path.
For slight corrections in the flight path, small steering motors were utilized.
Tight Squeeze | Dean Charles Ing
The blip representing Pickering had cut their flight path, slicing obliquely through their wake.
First on the Moon | Jeff SuttonIt was guided solely by the radio controlled servos, following a flight path previously determined by banks of computers.
First on the Moon | Jeff SuttonPerhaps none of these eastward vectors represents an actual extended flight path.
A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. | George H. Lowery.
British Dictionary definitions for flight path
the course through the air of an aircraft, rocket, or projectile: Compare approach (def. 10), glide path
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