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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flight suit

There's the leather flight suit of Amelia Earhart, who was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic but disappeared over the Pacific in 1937 as she attempted to fly around the world.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

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

Each will be kept cool in a pressurized flight suit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Those who know him say he is the most charismatic of the quartet and the most sharply dressed, with designer brown leather boots that somehow look good even with an orange flight suit.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

Instead, he was “a 36-year-old unshaven woolly-headed Guardsman in wrinkled flight suit and scuffed boots” facing “a cadre of handsome, young Marine officers—the President’s elite fliers: close-cropped, fresh-shaved, immaculate in tailored flight suits, spit-shined boots.”

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone