How to Use flight path in a Sentence

flight path

noun
  • No other planes were on their flight path.
  • No place near any kind of flight path is reliably quiet anymore.
    Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 June 2018
  • Wind, altitude, even the humidity can affect the ball's flight path.
    Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 15 June 2018
  • The flight paths took aircraft over Keller, creating a noise nuisance for its residents.
    Sandra Baker, star-telegram, 30 Apr. 2018
  • But local battles over airport and airplane noise continue for communities in flight paths.
    Mindy Fetterman, baltimoresun.com, 16 May 2018
  • Gates said, mimicking the flight path of Trump’s helicopter with his hand, eliciting another round of laughs.
    Bess Levin, The Hive, 18 May 2018
  • The appearance of a bird, and then a dragonfly, caused them to jerk their heads in unison and follow the flight path in the sky until the winged creatures disappeared from view.
    Jan Hefler, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
  • Zaharie's suspected suicide might explain an oddity about the plane's final flight path: that unexpected turn to the left.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 14 May 2018
  • The team is now planning to expand their research to other critters to examine possible connections between the genetics of stick insect species and bird flight paths.
    Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 30 May 2018
  • Thunderstorms are especially troublesome for summer flights, sometimes flaring up out of nowhere to block flight paths and cause delays that can quickly ripple across the region or country.
    Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, 26 June 2018
  • As a result of that ruling, the two sides reached an agreement to change some of the flight paths while the FAA conducted expanded public outreach about other routes.
    Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 14 May 2018
  • Olympic National Park is one of America's only wilderness areas that's uncrossed by highways and far from most commercial flight paths.
    Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 June 2018
  • The system reduces variation in takeoff and landing routes, which increases air-traffic efficiency, but also concentrates the noise below the flight paths.
    Chris Berdik, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
  • The wind and the weather, or the flight path of a bird—a bird!
    Paul Yoon, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • From the meeting spot, the photo group would end up right under the flight path of the cranes.
    Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The noisy planes were not so welcome to the people living along the flight path.
    Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • An initial search was set up based on the flight path, the pilot's cellphone pings and the Life360 app.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Had everything gone to plan, the flight path would have sat just south of the building.
    Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
  • In 2015, the two sides worked out a deal to change a flight path that was a bit too close for Taiwan’s comfort.
    Eryk Michael Smith, Fox News, 4 May 2024
  • It was designed this way to get around the restrictions of the site being on the flight path for LAX.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2022
  • For starters, the MLM is one of the best devices for giving flight path feedback on your shots.
    John Thompson, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
  • It’s also sunk deep into the ground as the venue sits right in the middle of the flight path to LAX, which is about three miles to the west.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The flight path, according to fllightaware.com, showed the plane making the straight shot west from Arizona.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Airlines follow flight paths that in some cases date back to the 1930s.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2020
  • After liftoff, the rocket will tear past the speed of sound, and near the top of its flight path, will detach from the capsule.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Carbajal told the paper the crew wouldn't have spotted him if their flight path hadn't gone by the camp.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 22 July 2021
  • Devitt's house is under a flight path, right near O'Hare.
    Dana Kozlov, CBS News, 18 July 2023
  • Their volatility makes a fruit fly’s flight path seem staid.
    Larry Light, Fortune, 11 May 2022
  • Experts say that shifting the flight path of this small fleet of planes ever so slightly could make a big difference.
    Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The home sits directly underneath several flight paths, according to the news outlet.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 15 June 2024

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