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flight strip

noun

  1. Aeronautics.
    1. a strip of cleared land used as an emergency runway for aircraft.
  2. a series of continuous aerial reconnaissance photographs.


flight strip

noun

  1. a strip of cleared land used as an emergency runway for aircraft
  2. another name for runway
  3. a strip of continuous aerial photographs
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of flight strip1

First recorded in 1935–40
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In October, for example, the FAA said it was working to end a long-ridiculed, decades-old practice of air traffic controllers using paper flight strips to keep track of aircraft.

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Another innovation adopted around the world is electronic flight strips—critical information about each flight that gets changed on touch screens and passed from one controller to another electronically.

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Glancing at his flight orders, O'Malley moved leisurely out to the flight strip designated.

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There was nothing but the green slope of the hill and the smooth runways leading to the flight strip.

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It’s also testing a prototype electronic flight-strip system for control towers in Phoenix and uses electronic flight strips instead of paper in en route centers.

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