Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Preparing for or occurring before flight.
- transitive verb To check (an aircraft) for airworthiness before flight.
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- adjective Taking place before the start of a
flight - noun An
inspection of anaircraft before the start of a flight
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Examples
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Even if you've recently used the stand, always do a "preflight" check to be certain that it's working properly and that there are no frayed straps or missing parts.
How to Sit and Wait: Bob Robb's Guide to Hunting Whitetail Deer from a Tree Stand or Ground Blind 2005
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But there aren't that many of us who do that kind of preflight checkout work, and everybody's work pad checked out clean.
Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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But there aren't that many of us who do that kind of preflight checkout work, and everybody's work pad checked out clean.
Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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To that end, Canoe will work with a programmer "preflight" to ensure the apps are certified and tested before they're sent out to the MSOs.
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They died on January 27, 1967, in fire during a preflight test at the NASA Space Center in Florida.
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I use a homebrew preflight Kindle filter to construct the Kindle binary from my master files, which we have invested nearly a million dollars into creating.
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A 2005 federal report on the September 2003 crash found inaccurate preflight planning resulted in the plane not having enough fuel.
Austin Hatch, Indiana Basketball Standout, Survives Second Plane Crash 2011
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Football became an integral part of the Navy's V-5 preflight initiative.
The Army-Navy Game Nobody Missed Randy Roberts 2011
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Investigators say preflight medical checks, a world-wide requirement, were perfunctory and possibly falsified.
Russia Faces New Air-Safety Crisis Gregory L. White 2011
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Instead, it will depend heavily on voluntary participation in educational opportunities emphasizing the importance of pilot attitude, preflight aircraft checks and improving skills in low-speed maneuvers.
Safety Campaign Targets Private Pilots Andy Pasztor 2011
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