escape
flight | the act of escaping physically, he made his escape from the mental hospital, the canary escaped from its cage, his flight was an indication of his guilt |
flight maneuver
airplane maneuver | a maneuver executed by an aircraft |
| flight | a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports, I took the noon flight to Chicago |
| connecting flight | a flight with an intermediate stop and a change of aircraft (possibly a change of airlines) |
| direct flight | a flight with one or more intermediate stops but no change of aircraft |
| domestic flight | a flight that begins and ends in the same country |
| international flight | a flight that takes off in one country and lands in another |
nonstop flight
nonstop | a flight made without intermediate stops between source and destination, how many nonstops are there to Dallas? |
redeye
redeye flight | a night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep, he took the redeye in order to get home the next morning |
flight
flying | an instance of traveling by air, flying was still an exciting adventure for him |
| maiden flight | the first flight of its kind, the Stealth bomber made its maiden flight in |
terrain flight
low level flight | flight at very low altitudes |
journey
journeying | the act of traveling from one place to another |
pilgrimage
pilgrim's journey | a journey to a sacred place |
| shakedown | extortion of money (as by blackmail) |
| flight control | control from ground stations of airplanes in flight by means of messages transmitted to the pilot electronically |
| shakedown | a very thorough search of a person or a place, a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs |
flight feather
pinion quill quill feather | any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird |
airstrip
flight strip
landing strip
strip | an airfield without normal airport facilities |
artificial horizon
gyro horizon
flight indicator | a navigational instrument based on a gyroscope, it artificially provides a simulated horizon for the pilot |
flight
flight of stairs
flight of steps | a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next |
flight deck
landing deck | the upper deck of an aircraft carrier, used as a runway |
flight simulator
trainer | simulator consisting of a machine on the ground that simulates the conditions of flying a plane |
| flight | passing above and beyond ordinary bounds, a flight of fancy, flights of rhetoric, flights of imagination |
| shakedown | initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state, the new industry's economic shakedown |
johnnycake
johnny cake
journey cake | cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England) |
| flight | an air force unit smaller than a squadron |
| flight | a formation of aircraft in flight |
| flight | a flock of flying birds |
air lane
flight path
airway
skyway | a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another |
| flight path | the path of a rocket or projectile or aircraft through the air |
| flight line | place where airplanes are parked and the maintenance hangars (but not the runways or taxiways) |
| line of flight | the path along which a freely moving object travels through the air |
| flight engineer | the flight crewman responsible for mechanical operation while in flight |
| flight surgeon | a medical officer specializing in aviation medicine |
| steward flight attendant | an attendant on an airplane |
trajectory
flight | the path followed by an object moving through space |
fledge
flight | decorate with feathers, fledge an arrow |
| travel journey | undertake a journey or trip |
| travel journey | travel upon or across, travel the oceans |
| flight | fly in a flock, flighting wild geese |
flee
fly take flight | run away quickly, He threw down his gun and fled |
| flight | shoot a bird in flight |
top-flight
top-hole
topping | excellent, best possible |
| shakedown | intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system, a shakedown cruise |
in flight
on the wing | flying through the air, we saw the ducks in flight |