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
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.
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Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2024
Instead, the ship will drift through space until its flight path brings it back into the upper atmosphere around 47 minutes into the flight.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
Even the pilots were excited, coming out of the cockpit to brief passengers on the flight path.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2024
What Boone didn’t expect, however, was the solo homer’s flight path.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 9 May 2024
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Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2024
Instead, the ship will drift through space until its flight path brings it back into the upper atmosphere around 47 minutes into the flight.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
Even the pilots were excited, coming out of the cockpit to brief passengers on the flight path.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2024
What Boone didn’t expect, however, was the solo homer’s flight path.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 9 May 2024
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“Flight path.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flight%20path. Accessed 14 Jul. 2024.
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