flight line
Noun
Meaning
place where airplanes are parked and the maintenance hangars (but not the runways or taxiways)
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A 33rd Fighter Wing F-35A Lightning II sits on the flight line after an early morning AIM-9X missile load at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, Sept. 17, 2019.
Bjorkman, Eileen, Small, fast and in your face, Air & Space, February/March 2014, p,35 Interestingly, this missile had been returned from the flight line as defective a day earlier.
Foto: First Lt. Thomas Buckley, 37th Flying Training Squadron instructor pilot, gathers gear before going on the flight line, at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, January 24, 2020.
Variants main A Royal Air Force Harrier GR.3 aircraft parked on the flight line during Air Fete '84 at RAF Mildenhall A USMC TAV-8A Harrier from VMAT-203 on the flight line ;Harrier GR.1, GR.1A, GR.3 : Single-seat versions for the RAF.
Proulx and many other Airmen continue working behind the scenes, on the flight line, and on the front line to support their community.
The was trying to guard them against sabotage and it was easier to do when they were all tightly parked together on the flight line.