Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Mechanically or structurally fit for flight.
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- adjective aviation safe enough to
fly
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Examples
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Some of it will be later torn apart and reassembled in a flightworthy wehicle.
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It had begun as a logical expedient for injured riders to ask their flightworthy dragons if they would fly a sound dragonman to make up Wing strength at Threadfall.
Artichoke Christian Bell 2010
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If there's a Utopia-owned plane still flightworthy after our friendly takeover.
Who Do You Say I Am 2010
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Under the original schedule EPI had been due to deliver the first flightworthy TP400 in November 2006.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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Under the original schedule EPI had been due to deliver the first flightworthy TP400 in November 2006.
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Milt Thompson admits: “We encountered numerous problems developing a good flightworthy vehicle.”
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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Milt Thompson admits: “We encountered numerous problems developing a good flightworthy vehicle.”
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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Milt Thompson admits: “We encountered numerous problems developing a good flightworthy vehicle.”
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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Milt Thompson admits: “We encountered numerous problems developing a good flightworthy vehicle.”
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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It was still flightworthy, though; if you wanted to transport nine children and several adults across eight hundred miles, that was the quickest way to do it.
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