flight line

flight line
noun
place where airplanes are parked and the maintenance hangars (but not the runways or taxiways)
Hypernyms: ↑line
Part Holonyms: ↑airfield, ↑landing field, ↑flying field, ↑field

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noun
: the ground parking and servicing area for airplanes including hangars, operations building, and ramps but not runways or taxiways

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an area for the servicing and maintenance of airplanes that includes parking ramps and hangars.
[1940-45]

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flight line noun
1. An area of an airfield where aircraft are parked and serviced
2. Line of flight
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Main Entry:flight

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flight line,
1. the portion of an airfield which includes hangars and service buildings, but not runways or their approaches: »

the thunder of her departure ricocheting off the buildings along the flight line (Harper's).

2. the flight path of an airplane.

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n.
1) the part of an airport around the hangars where aircraft can be parked and serviced
2) a line of flight

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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