How to Use flight path in a Sentence

flight path

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  • What Boone didn’t expect, however, was the solo homer’s flight path.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 9 May 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
  • Whitewings follow a more predictable flight path than mourning doves with significantly less zip.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2020
  • That allows the controller to change the flight path at the request of air traffic control, and keep an eye on the plane’s surroundings using cameras on board.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 20 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • The missile briefly flies straight up until a series of divert motors pitch the missile into a roughly horizontal flight path.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The most obvious is changing its flight path to bend down toward the atmosphere, where the air drag will capture it and bring it relentlessly down to the surface.
    — Terry Virts, Wired, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Big tech stocks are continuing their Icarus-like flight path, and more sharp declines for them are dragging Wall Street toward a third straight loss on Tuesday.
    — Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Its flight path was first reported by an investigative journalist on Twitter and later confirmed by Motherboard.
    — Samuel Woolley, Wired, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Unfortunately, by the sixth tutorial, the game's helpful prompts and visual indicators disappear, and players are asked to chart a flight path in a plane whose cockpit lacks useful screens and maps.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 30 July 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • If all goes to plan, the collision will redirect the space rock and alter its flight path.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Housing remains the main event as to this year’s inflation flight path.
    — Sean Hanlon, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Aubrey, boasting a consistent strike and flight path on his kicks, has emerged as the kicker to beat in training camp.
    — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • These incidents consist of any instances in which a pilot sees a laser in their flight path.
    — Catherine Allen, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • This might have meant upgrading the radio controls, or sending the drones on a pre-programmed flight path.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • In the Hawaiian Airlines case, weather officials told media, there were storms in the flight path.
    — Hannah Sampson, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Now, scientists have been able to precisely map the flight path of an asteroid for the first time and trace it back to its origin point.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 May 2021

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