flight bag

noun

1. a lightweight shoulder bag designed for carrying sundries aboard an aircraft.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flight bag¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

Older versions of a digital tool used to calculate landing and take-off speeds on some aircraft could be tampered with by hackers with direct access to an “Electronic Flight Bag,” or EFB, a tablet device used by pilots to plan flights, cybersecurity firm Pen Test Partners said in a report.

From Reuters

The plot is set in motion when Bobby, a salvage diver, gets assigned to explore the wreckage of a sunken jet off the coast of Mississippi, and discovers that the plane’s black box, the pilot’s flight bag and the body of one of the passengers are all missing.

From New York Times

Cohen instead wandered down to the basement and, in a closet filled with crumpled newspapers, unearthed Glenn’s flight bag along with his personalized Senate attache case.

From Washington Post

She had no luggage but her gas mask and her flight bag, containing a skirt that she was supposed to wear when she wasn’t flying but which she hadn’t been able to change into, and her maps and pilot’s notes and circular slide rule for wind speed computations.

From Literature

There is one thing I didn’t tell him about, and that is this big stack of paper I have been humping around in my flight bag—everything Julie’s written, everything I’ve written, all her scraps of hotel stationery and sheet music and my Pilot’s Notes and Etienne’s exercise book—I didn’t tell him there’s a written record.

From Literature