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Definition of Flight strip
1. Noun. An airfield without normal airport facilities.
Generic synonyms: Airfield, Field, Flying Field, Landing Field
Specialized synonyms: Flare Path
Terms within: Runway
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flight Strip
Literary usage of Flight strip
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1829)
"... under the following figure ; " The feather that adorns the royal bird supports
his flight. Strip him of his plumage and you fix him to the earth. ..."
2. English Composition and Rhetoric by Alexander Bain (1890)
"The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his
plumage, and you fix him to Hie earth.' Not much is to be made of this in the ..."
3. Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced by John Bartlett (1906)
"The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight ; strip him of his
plumage, and you fix him to the earth. ..."
4. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"Just past Mile 72 is what was once the Beatton River flight strip, one of the
four gravel airstrips built during Highway construction to provide emergency ..."
5. The Letters of Junius by Junius (1882)
"The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his
plumage, and you fix him to the earth. JUNIUS. * A mistake : he appears before ..."
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