cruising radius

American  

noun

1. the maximum distance that an aircraft or ship can traverse and then return to its starting point at cruising speed without refueling.

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Etymology

Origin of cruising radius

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

This cut down their cruising radius from 1,000 to 700 mi. and made necessary a food and fuel way-station betwen Etah and Axel-Heiberg Land.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since 1926 U. S. naval policy has favored the big cruiser, on the theory that the U. S., lacking naval bases, needed fighters with the maximum offensive cruising radius.

From Time Magazine Archive

We are not so well provided with bases, and so we must have larger ships of longer cruising radius.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some features: Szekely 3-cylinder motor of 40 h. p.; top speed 80 m. p. h., cruising 70, landing 28 Fuel consumption: about one gallon to 25 mi.; cruising radius 200 mi.

From Time Magazine Archive

With a cruising radius of twenty-five hundred miles, she stayed out from the base until her torpoons had accounted for anywhere from sixty to eighty killers.

From Seed of the Arctic Ice by Bates, Harry