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
Examples of flight path in a Sentence
No other planes were on their flight path.
Recent Examples on the Web
The site ranked the flight paths based on their average eddy dissipation rates (EDR), a measure of how quickly air disturbances work themselves out of the atmosphere.
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Melvin Backman, Quartz, 3 July 2024
These aerial light shows use hundreds of individual drones equipped with color-changing LEDs and programmed to follow certain flight paths to create animations and images in the sky.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2024
According to the online site Flight Aware, which tracks flight paths, the Southwest flight, an inter-island hop, departed from the at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport at 6:45 p.m. bound for the Lihue Airport, just northwest of Honolulu.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 17 June 2024
In addition to text alerts with live radar maps across their flight path, United passengers will be able to access links to weather maps in the airline’s app under flight status updates.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2024
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Melvin Backman, Quartz, 3 July 2024
These aerial light shows use hundreds of individual drones equipped with color-changing LEDs and programmed to follow certain flight paths to create animations and images in the sky.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2024
According to the online site Flight Aware, which tracks flight paths, the Southwest flight, an inter-island hop, departed from the at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport at 6:45 p.m. bound for the Lihue Airport, just northwest of Honolulu.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 17 June 2024
In addition to text alerts with live radar maps across their flight path, United passengers will be able to access links to weather maps in the airline’s app under flight status updates.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2024
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“Flight path.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flight%20path. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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