flight suit

noun

: a usually one-piece garment especially of fire-resistant fabric worn especially by a member of a military aircrew

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Wearing dark blue flight suits, Crew 10 commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, cosmonaut Kirill Peskov and Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi are welcomed aboard the space station after arrival early Saturday. William Harwood, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2025 Placed on a flight suit, our CMGs could be used to resist an astronaut’s movement, helping to mitigate some of the effects of long-term weightlessness. Michele Carpenter, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2015 Equipped with the Falcon flight suit, Wilson joins forces with Rogers to combat terrorists and other threats. Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025 The contraption—as much pendulum as plane—reared and dipped as its pilot, a Tyrolian biologist in an olive-drab flight suit and amber shooting glasses, tugged on the steering levers. Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flight suit

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First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of flight suit was in 1944

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“Flight suit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flight%20suit. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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