flight strip

American  

noun

1. Aeronautics.

   1. a strip of cleared land used as an emergency runway for aircraft.

   2. runway.

2. a series of continuous aerial reconnaissance photographs.

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flight strip British  

noun

1. a strip of cleared land used as an emergency runway for aircraft

2. another name for runway

3. a strip of continuous aerial photographs

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Etymology

Origin of flight strip

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

"Fifteen or 20 miles over water is daunting in daylight," says Joe Orlando, an Essex pilot who met Kennedy on the flight strip a few months ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a flight strip about one mile long, paved with steel mats laid on gravel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beyond the flight strip, on both sides, are low, scrub-covered hills.

From Time Magazine Archive

Runways led out to a wide flight strip.

From A Yankee Flier Over Berlin by Laune, Paul

There was nothing but the green slope of the hill and the smooth runways leading to the flight strip.

From A Yankee Flier Over Berlin by Laune, Paul

Related Words

• air base
• airfield
• airstrip