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What is "flight path"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
flight path
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the gaggle crossed the next village on our flight path, many ships called in hits.
▪ It soars the length of the awning, wings flapping once, twice to propel it along an unerring flight path.
▪ Living near an airport which is proposing to add an extra flight path - over your house.
▪ No way was I going out with a Famlio ship in my flight path.
▪ She would then try to adjust her flight path to the fist by altering direction into the wind.
▪ That way it may get out of the bat's flight path before it enters the detection range.
▪ We must be under a flight path.
Wiktionary
flight path

n. 1 A trajectory, the traveled path of a projectile, rocket or aircraft through the air. 2 An airway, the predefined route of travel for an aircraft or spacecraft.

WordNet
flight path

  1. n. the path of a rocket or projectile or aircraft through the air

  2. a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another [syn: air lane, airway, skyway]

Usage examples of "flight path".

But the temptation to adjust the Boeing's flight path downward was too great, and unconsciously Scott relaxed a bit of back pressure on the yoke and changed the glide pathjust as the ship's bow found a massive wave trough and pitched forward.

The B-52 was shooting at him, and that was no machine-gun round-the intruder had tail-firing rockets Yuri expertly rolled out of his turn, perpendicular to the bomber's flight path and out of range of the strange fl.

The lights from her instrument panel bet her trace her assigned flight path.

Just enough to change the flight path, as he began now, a clumsy but effective turn, a wide sweep above and almost beyond the planet, practicing what other men would soon be doing when they flew the big Orbiters of the shuttle program back from beyond the edge of space.

The helicopter flight over the sixty miles from the centre of Helsinki had been a final strained weariness after the other events of the day - a hammering metal box around him, shadowed by two other helicopters, and a flight path patrolled on the ground and in the air all that day.

Before he could react, he saw the American plane deftly jink and stand the speedy little F-16 up on its wing to evade the missile's flight path as he continued the hair-raising climb.

This means that the KH-12 can provide high resolution images of objects hundreds of kilometers to either side of its flight path.

His two companions whose return had been timed to coincide with the Ski-hawks arrival converged to follow the same flight path.