flight suit

noun

1. a long-sleeved jumpsuit made of fire-resistant material, worn typically by members of an aircraft crew.

Example Sentences

On a crisp September night in 1943, a woman boarded a warplane ready to return to Poland to fight the Nazis, a parachute strapped to her back and a blue dress beneath her flight suit.

From BBC

On Thursday, Putin, clad in a flight suit, boarded the warplane at a snow-covered airfield of an aircraft-making plant in the Volga River city of Kazan that has built the heavy bombers since the Soviet times.

From Seattle Times

“He was a tail gunner on a bomber in England, and his flight suit — you know they’re heated, and the heating went out on his right hand and his fingers froze to the gun and he wound up having his fingers amputated,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times

Air Force flight suit, the mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo took her place onstage one recent morning and began to sing about war.

From New York Times

She wears her flight suit when speaking at schools in Detroit.

From Seattle Times