flight-test
[ flahyt-test ]
verb (used with object)
to test (an airplane or the like) in flight.
Origin of flight-test
1First recorded in 1930–35
Words Nearby flight-test
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How to use flight-test in a sentence
Additionally, fan and turbines blades have cracked in testing and on at least one flight test aircraft.
America’s $400 Billion Stealth Jet Fleet Is Grounded | Dave Majumdar | June 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDeprived of oxygen by the decompression, the flight test crew had to grab for oxygen masks.
The Exemplary Plane at the Heart of the MH370 Mystery | Clive Irving | March 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was the second 777 to be built and still deep into the flight test program.
The Exemplary Plane at the Heart of the MH370 Mystery | Clive Irving | March 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJoe went to look at the last pushpots, and they were ready to be taken over to their own field for their flight test before use.
Space Platform | Murray LeinsterA man came up to me for flight test once when I was an inspector for the Department of Commerce.
Test Pilot | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)
He had gone into an inadvertent spin, the unforgivable sin in a flight test.
Test Pilot | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)
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