flight path
Example Sentences
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Artemis 2 astronaut Jeremy Hansen felt like he was "falling out of the sky" as his spacecraft followed its complex flight path to the Moon, the Canadian said in a Saturday video call.
From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026
Planes continually rumble overhead in Walter Thompson-Hernández’s “If I Go Will They Miss Me,” shot on location at Nickerson Gardens in Watts under the flight path to LAX.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
Along the shortest flight path between Moscow and Washington, D.C.—an arc known as the great-circle distance—Greenland sits midway.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
Starship’s upper stage reached the highest planned point in its flight path, but it went into a spin on the way down, blowing up over the Indian Ocean.
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026
My flight path carried me in a great sweeping arc around and behind the Gemini.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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