How to Use flight path in a Sentence

flight path

noun
  • No other planes were on their flight path.
  • The wind and the weather, or the flight path of a bird—a bird!
    Paul Yoon, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • If an eruption takes place far from populations and flight paths, no one may even notice that the peak burst its top.
    National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2019
  • Yet Iran also sits alongside the flight path, meaning a second detour may now be required.
    Charles Riley, CNN, 21 June 2019
  • Trees, utility wires and spiraling footballs can turn up almost anywhere in the flight path.
    Richard Conniff, Scientific American, 17 June 2019
  • Alaska Airlines and Boeing did the careful work to develop such an automated flight path for the west-side planes.
    Dominic Gates, The Seattle Times, 25 Oct. 2018
  • Images provided by the two governments appear to show a similar flight path for the Global Hawk.
    Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 21 June 2019
  • The reason for the snafu stems from a bureaucratic jumble involving different airline contractors and a flight path that was filed dead wrong.
    Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2019
  • The images offered little context and initially included an incorrect description of the drone’s flight path.
    Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 21 June 2019
  • Both sides have released videos, images and maps of the drone’s flight path to bolster their respective cases, which are impossible to independently verify.
    John Walcott, Time, 21 June 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
  • For certain clients, the data revealed flight paths some drones took.
    Wired, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Sainz’s old house was under the flight path from Sky Harbor airport.
    Erin Stone, azcentral, 31 Dec. 2019
  • If all goes to plan, the collision will redirect the space rock and alter its flight path.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The new flight path will now loop through Central Indiana from west to east, starting in Terre Haute.
    Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The site ranked the flight paths based on their average eddy dissipation rates (EDR), a measure of how quickly air disturbances work themselves out of the atmosphere.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 3 July 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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