flight line

or flight·line (flīt′līn′)

The area of an airfield, specifically the parking area and the maintenance hangars, where aircraft are onloaded, offloaded, and serviced.

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flight line

(Aeronautics) an area of an airfield or airport on which aircraft, esp military aircraft, are parked and serviced

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flight′ line`

the area of an airfield used for the servicing and maintenance of airplanes.

[1940–45]

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Noun

flight line - place where airplanes are parked and the maintenance hangars (but not the runways or taxiways)

airfield, flying field, landing field, field - a place where planes take off and land

line - a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent

Translations

ligne de foulée

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He notified his flight line expediter and reported his findings.

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A'Duqm, Jan 5 (ONA) Yahya bin Said al-Jabri, Chairman of A'Duqm Special Economic Zone Authority (SEZA) today signed at A'Duqm SEZA HQs' an agreement with City Travel LLC for the management of reservations for the direct flight line between Muscat Airport and Ja'aloni Airport in the Al Wusta Governorate.

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