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Definition of Flight line
1. Noun. Place where airplanes are parked and the maintenance hangars (but not the runways or taxiways).
Definition of Flight line
1. Noun. (aviation) The precise movement of a civil photogrammetric aircraft along a predetermined course at a predetermined altitude during the actual photographic run. ¹
2. Noun. (aviation) The area of an airfield where aircraft may be parked and serviced, including hangars, but not including taxiways or runways. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flight Line
Literary usage of Flight line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spatial Statistics and Imaging by Antonio Possolo (1991)
"... organized by flight-line angle and expressed in rectangular coordinates. ...
the flight line, with the resulting densities for all points then summed. ..."
2. The Military Dictionary (1987)
"The overlap between successive air photographs on a flight line is called "forward
overlap." The overlap between photographs in adjacent parallel flight ..."