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Air lane

noun

A designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another. Synonyms: airway, flight path, skyway.

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"Air lane" Quotes from Famous Books

... above the troops, flying as straight for Brussels as a homing bee for the hive, went a military monoplane, serving as courier and spy for the crawling columns below it. Directly, having gone far ahead, it came speeding back, along a lower air lane and performed a series of circling and darting gyrations, which doubtlessly had a signal-code meaning for the troops. Twice or three times it swung directly above our heads, and at the height at which it now evoluted we could plainly distinguish ...

— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb

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Words linked to "Air lane" : path, flight path, airway, route, itinerary, approach, glide slope, holding pattern, approach path, glide path