flight strip

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noun

Aeronautics.
- a strip of cleared land used as an emergency runway for aircraft.
- runway.
a series of continuous aerial reconnaissance photographs.

Origin of flight strip

First recorded in 1935–40

Words Nearby flight strip

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How to use flight strip in a sentence

There was nothing but the green slope of the hill and the smooth runways leading to the flight strip.
A Yankee Flier Over Berlin | Al Avery
Stan was well up now where he could look down on the flight strip below.
A Yankee Flier Over Berlin | Al Avery
Tony and Arno helped them wheel the Nardis out on the flight strip.
A Yankee Flier in Italy | Rutherford G. Montgomery
Arno led them to a spot where there was a narrow flight strip.
A Yankee Flier in Italy | Rutherford G. Montgomery
Glancing at his flight orders, O'Malley moved leisurely out to the flight strip designated.
A Yankee Flier in Italy | Rutherford G. Montgomery

British Dictionary definitions for flight strip

flight strip

noun

a strip of cleared land used as an emergency runway for aircraft
another name for runway (def. 1)

a strip of continuous aerial photographs

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