Definition of Blind flying

1. Noun. Using only instruments for flying an aircraft because you cannot see through clouds or mists etc..

Exact synonyms: Blind Landing
Generic synonyms: Flight, Flying

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blind Flying

blind alley
blind alleys
blind as a bat
blind bend
blind boil
blind carbon copy
blind corner
blind curve
blind date
blind dates
blind drunk
blind ecash
blind eel
blind enema
blind fistula
blind flying (current term)
blind foramen of frontal bone
blind foramen of the tongue
blind gentian
blind gut
blind headache
blind hole
blind holes
blind item
blind items
blind landing
blind leading the blind
blind loop syndrome
blind man
blind man's bluff

Literary usage of Blind flying

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Aviation in the U.S. Army, 1919-1939 by Maurer Maurer (1987)
"... low pressure, and cold temperature before their altitude flights.35 Blind Flying Flying in fog or clouds, unable to see the ground and with no horizon, ..."

2. Journal by Helicopter Association of Great Britain (1894)
"The problem of blind flying had not received the attention he had hoped. The meeting had tended to talk about stability and control rather that the actual ..."

3. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"blind flying This comes rather under the head of flying training than under aviation ... Nevertheless, the difficulties of blind flying are physiological, ..."

4. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"They regard these flying lizards as subordinate to the great blind Flying Lizard of their legends, which keeps watch over the [Life-] stone, for 1 JIA vol. ..."

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