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  • adjective Able to be flown

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Examples

  • "flyable" though there was low cloud and mist, with conditions changing regularly.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff By MICHAEL FOX 2010

  • Sir or madam, Enterprise was not a flyable shuttle at that time; it was used only for those drop tests.

    Mike Griffin Wants His Old Job Back - NASA Watch 2009

  • Sure it could glide like the real thing, but it had no heat shield, no engines, in fact you could not even mount shuttle engines on it the way it was built - to be fair, it could have been modified to be flyable - indeed that was considered at least twice in the life of the program, but it never was.

    Mike Griffin Wants His Old Job Back - NASA Watch 2009

  • - In your example, the hypothetical non-stand up launch of Saturn 5 would test actual flyable parts, like the first stage, and then the second.

    Ares Troubles Mount - NASA Watch 2009

  • We sat there talking and laughing for about half an hour until his friend, another paraglider, came over to point out that the rain had stopped and it was flyable again.

    Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

  • Today, there's only one flyable B-29 left in the world.

    The Warplane Who Wouldn 2010

  • Sir or madam, Enterprise was not a flyable shuttle at that time; it was used only for those drop tests.

    Mike Griffin Wants His Old Job Back - NASA Watch 2009

  • We sat there talking and laughing for about half an hour until his friend, another paraglider, came over to point out that the rain had stopped and it was flyable again.

    Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

  • Another few days passed and another few plastic bottles of gin were emptied before he'd filled out the FAA paperwork that said the plane was flyable.

    CUBA: FIVE DAYS ON THE CHEAP, FREE CELL, FREE GUARD DOG, FREE GUARD 2010

  • The "static airframe" Boeing uses for the test isn't a flyable aircraft.

    Boeing Dreamliner Passes Test Peter Sanders 2010

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