flight path
noun
: the path in the air or space made or followed by something (such as a particle, an airplane, or a spacecraft) in flight
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No other planes were on their flight path.
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Their flight path described a set of perfect lines, intentionally unlike any shape that precipitation takes in nature.
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Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
Psyche’s magnetometer may have detected a signature of the solar wind interacting with Mars’ upper atmosphere or its remnant magnetic field, and its spectrometers were tuned to measure the chemical composition of the Martian surface underneath the spacecraft’s flight path.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 20 May 2026
Police later followed Fauolo’s flight path and found a gun, which was linked to him through a DNA test, the complaint says.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 20 May 2026
The system generates smooth, high-quality flight paths while reacting to obstacles using only onboard sensors and computing hardware.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
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Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
Psyche’s magnetometer may have detected a signature of the solar wind interacting with Mars’ upper atmosphere or its remnant magnetic field, and its spectrometers were tuned to measure the chemical composition of the Martian surface underneath the spacecraft’s flight path.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 20 May 2026
Police later followed Fauolo’s flight path and found a gun, which was linked to him through a DNA test, the complaint says.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 20 May 2026
The system generates smooth, high-quality flight paths while reacting to obstacles using only onboard sensors and computing hardware.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for flight path
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“Flight path.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flight%20path. Accessed 27 May. 2026.
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