flight path

noun

1. the trajectory of a moving aircraft or spacecraft relative to a fixed reference.

flight path

noun

1. the course through the air of an aircraft, rocket, or projectile Compare approach glide path

Word History and Origins

Origin of flight path¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

The flight path remained close to the Indonesian archipelago, well within what is the normal reach of air traffic control radar.

From The Daily Beast

The flight path of the Air France Airbus A330 was known with some precision, as was the time of its disappearance.

From The Daily Beast

One of his graphics shows that at the heart of the storm the roiling clouds rose to 20,000 feet above the flight path.

From The Daily Beast

These maps are now so sophisticated that they accurately pinpoint not only the time left to landing but the exact flight path.

From The Daily Beast

For slight corrections in the flight path, small steering motors were utilized.

From Project Gutenberg

The blip representing Pickering had cut their flight path, slicing obliquely through their wake.

From Project Gutenberg

It was guided solely by the radio controlled servos, following a flight path previously determined by banks of computers.

From Project Gutenberg

Perhaps none of these eastward vectors represents an actual extended flight path.

From Project Gutenberg