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flight suit

American  

noun

  1. a long-sleeved jumpsuit made of fire-resistant material, worn typically by members of an aircraft crew.


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In one of Glover’s favorite pictures, snapped by his wife, he is sitting at his desk in his tan desert flight suit, focused on graduate school work while holding one of his daughters.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2026

American pilots do have a small kit in their ejection chair or on their flight suit to assist them.

From Barron's Apr. 3, 2026

I returned to Palo Alto in early September, with new eyeglasses, a prescription for the anti-emetic Zofran and a surplus-store flight suit.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 17, 2025

On a crisp September night in 1943, a woman boarded a warplane ready to return to Poland to fight the Nazis, a parachute strapped to her back and a blue dress beneath her flight suit.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2024

He wore a military pilot’s flight suit, with tiny bird’s wings fluttering on his helmet and his black leather boots.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

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