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Definition of Flare path
1. Noun. An airstrip outline with lights to guide an airplane pilot in landing.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flare Path
Literary usage of Flare path
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Night Bombing with the Bedouins by Robert Henry Reece (1919)
"der bombardment by the Huns the flare- path is lighted and the pilot spirals
slowly down while the allotted letter of the plane is being flashed in Morse ..."
2. Challenging Horizons: Qantas 1939-1954 by John Gunn (1987)
"Camilla was asked to hold off while a flare path was laid and Koch circled the
light. Lester Brain, in a formal report, wrote: "Thick weather intensified ..."