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flight path

noun

  1. the trajectory of a moving aircraft or spacecraft relative to a fixed reference.


flight path

noun

  1. the course through the air of an aircraft, rocket, or projectile Compare approach glide path
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of flight path1

First recorded in 1910–15
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Example Sentences

With a swarm, one human operator can guide several flying robots, all of which communicate to each other and adjust flight paths to reach the same destination.

There’s a lot more space in the sky than on the ground, obviously, but flight paths need to be carefully planned and contained within specific areas, particularly in and near big cities.

They give regular tours and advice to others and release information about their flight paths online.

The researchers would have to work out the best flight paths that take such scheduling issues into consideration.

Tuesday’s test would have assessed the missile’s rocket boosters as well as its ability to safely depart from the bomber’s flight path.

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.

One 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.

The blip representing Pickering had cut their flight path, slicing obliquely through their wake.

It was guided solely by the radio controlled servos, following a flight path previously determined by banks of computers.

Perhaps none of these eastward vectors represents an actual extended flight path.

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