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Air Force term for the point in a flight in which there's only enough fuel remaining to return to base.
Rhyming slang for take flight
A flat deck used for the launch and recovery of aircraft.
A viewing gallery on an aircraft carrier’s island where you can watch flight operations.
A canvas cover that is rigged over quarterdeck, focsle or flight deck to serve as protection from the sun and rain, especially when the ship is hosting guests.
n 1. A cigarette. Also coffin nail. tr.v. nailed, nailing, nails 1. To stop and seize; catch: Police nailed the suspect. 2. To detect and expose: nailed the senator in a lie 3. a. To strike or bring down: nail a bird in flight; nail a running back. b. To perform successfully or have noteworthy success in: nailed the exam.
usually the "deck apes" and small box coxswains. The Aviation Boatswain's Mates were usually the guys who took care of towing the birds around the ramp area or flight decks and who made sure they were secured to the 'ground' when the weather went to pot.
A negative term applied to flighty persons or persons always in a hurry.
The quarter deck is the upper deck aft of the superstructure or, on ships with flightdecks, aft of the flight deck area. The name derives from the great men o' war; the quarterdeck was a raised section of the upper deck at the after end, where the helm position was. A service member always salutes the quarterdeck when coming aboard or proceeding ashore, as a mark of respect. The origin of this custom is somewhat obscure, but is thought to come from the location of the tabernacle, which is where the ship's chaplain kept the consecrated bread, which in the Christian faith is considered to be the body of Christ; thus, the salute was a mark of respect to the visible presence of God onboard. Another theory is that, as this is where the ship's master would be in battle, the authority of command was in that particular place.
the navigational name of the northeastern-most corner of the Saigon Flight Information Region (FIR), of which flight past assured the crew of combat pay and combat income tax exemption.
A flight of stairs.
A flight deck which is unsafe for landings. Either due to a crash, errant gear or personnel, or the condition of the deck surface.
To not make the grade at flight school.
A flight-deck exercise where the crew scans for any foreign object, large or small.
an Air Force pilot's last mission in Vietnam.
a very late or overnight flight
Flight suit.
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A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
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In a flighty manner.
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A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.
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Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage.
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A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
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The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete.
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Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
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A flight of birds.
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The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile.
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The state or quality of being flighty.
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Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; eccentric; slighty delirious.
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A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows.
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A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind.
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Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or "tumbling" in flight.
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The act of flying; flight.
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To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.
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A scampering; a hasty flight.
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A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
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High flight; elevation.
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Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition.
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