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.
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The flight was the second conducted by SpaceX this year, after the launch of Starship 7 in January along a similar flight path, which also exploded.
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William Lambers, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
From the far side of the moon, outside of regular communications range, the lander will perform a descent trajectory burn to shrink its orbit and put it on a flight path toward its landing site.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 6 Mar. 2025
Each composition aligns with a different ISS flight path recorded between May and September 2024, creating a meditative blend of music and imagery.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
The flight path, too, was a familiar one: The buzz of military helicopters is a constant above Washington, D.C.
And yet the training flight ended in a fireball in the night sky as the UH-60 Black Hawk slammed into a commercial airliner carrying 64 people, leaving no survivors.
—NBC News, 2 Feb. 2025
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William Lambers, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
From the far side of the moon, outside of regular communications range, the lander will perform a descent trajectory burn to shrink its orbit and put it on a flight path toward its landing site.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 6 Mar. 2025
Each composition aligns with a different ISS flight path recorded between May and September 2024, creating a meditative blend of music and imagery.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
The flight path, too, was a familiar one: The buzz of military helicopters is a constant above Washington, D.C.
And yet the training flight ended in a fireball in the night sky as the UH-60 Black Hawk slammed into a commercial airliner carrying 64 people, leaving no survivors.
—NBC News, 2 Feb. 2025
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“Flight path.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flight%20path. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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