flight-test

[ flahyt-test ]

verb (used with object)

1. to test (an airplane or the like) in flight.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flight-test¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Additionally, fan and turbines blades have cracked in testing and on at least one flight test aircraft.

From The Daily Beast

Deprived of oxygen by the decompression, the flight test crew had to grab for oxygen masks.

From The Daily Beast

It was the second 777 to be built and still deep into the flight test program.

From The Daily Beast

Joe 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.

From Project Gutenberg

A man came up to me for flight test once when I was an inspector for the Department of Commerce.

From Project Gutenberg

He had gone into an inadvertent spin, the unforgivable sin in a flight test.

From Project Gutenberg