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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Although spaced farther apart than 500 mi., such dromes could easily be reached by ships of long cruising radius.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her cruising radius was 1500 miles and the combination of oil and electric motors proved so successful that from that time on every submarine built anywhere adopted this principle.

From Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)