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Flight path

noun

The path of a rocket or projectile or aircraft through the air.

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

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"Flight path" Quotes from Famous Books

... Incidence relative to the horizontal, in order to secure a proper inclination of the Surface to the direction of motion, for you must remember that, while we shall fly upon an even keel and with the propeller thrust horizontal (which is its most efficient attitude), our flight path, which is our direction of motion, will be sloping upwards, and it will therefore be necessary to fix the Surface to the Aeroplane at a very considerable angle relative to the horizontal Propeller Thrust ...

— The Aeroplane Speaks - Fifth Edition • H. Barber

... missile was slightly off the correct path. A new flow of information now began pulsing in as other ships' tracking radars recorded its course. The data was being fed automatically to the "capture" computer. This would analyze the correct flight path for the recovery missile, which would magnetically seize the returning traveler from Jupiter ...

— Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung • Victor Appleton

... everyday objects look like UFO's because of some odd quirk in the human mind. A star or planet that has been in the sky every day of the observer's life suddenly "takes off at high speed on a highly erratic flight path." Or a vapor trail from a high-flying jet—seen a hundred times before by ...

— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt

Words linked to "Flight path" : approach path, air lane, approach, route, holding pattern, skyway, glide path, glide slope, path, itinerary