preflight
Speech parts
1. preflight - Noun
2. preflight - Adjective
3. preflight - Verb
Meaning
Taking place before the start of a flight.
(computing) Serving to confirm that requests can be accepted, before sending an actual request.
a CORS preflight request
preflight (plural preflights)
An inspection of an aircraft before the start of a flight.
preflight (third-person singular simple present preflights, present participle preflighting, simple past and past participle preflighted)
To perform an inspection of an aircraft before the start of a flight.
Examples
Iraqi Air Force Capt. Hama, then a student pilot, conducts preflight inspections while inside a new Iraqi F-16 Fighting Falcon located at the nearby Tucson International Airport, Dec. 17, 2014.
My annual doctor checkups get borderline blood pressure measurements, but I'm always in the good range for the donation preflight checks.
With that being said, the preflight process for a media/incentive flight on a B-52 is way more intense than I imagined.
This coincided with the launch of Merlin Entertainments 4D Experience preflight show underneath the ticket centre in County Hall.
NASA pressed on, and mid January 1967, preparations were being made for the final preflight tests of Spacecraft 012. citation The simulator problems proved extremely annoying to Grissom.
They hurdle onto a springboard and spring onto the vault with their hands (the preflight or first flight, and block).