FLIGHT TEST

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FLIGHT TEST

Specialty Definition: FLIGHT TEST

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	1. A test by means of actual or attempted flight to see how an aircraft, spacecraft, space-air vehicle, or missile flies.2. A test of a component part of a flying vehicle, or of an object carried in such a vehicle, to determine its suitability or reliability in terms of its intended function by making it endure actual flight. (references)
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Crosswords: FLIGHT TEST

Specialty definitions using "FLIGHT TEST": captive test ♦ flight readiness firing, flight test vehicle, FLIGHT-TEST DATA ACQUISITION TECHNICIAN ♦ radio operator, ground, RADIO STATION OPERATOR. (references)

Commercial Usage: FLIGHT TEST

Domain	Title
Books	Edwards Air Force Base: Open House at the Usaf Flight Test Center 1957-1966: A Photo Chronicle of Aircraft Displayed (Schiffer Military History) (reference) Flight Test Tips & Tales From The Eye of the Examiner (reference) Flight Test Xxi: The Sky's No Longer the Limit: 6-10 August, 1990, Garden Grove, California: 21st Annual Symposium Proceedings (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Society Of Flight Test Engineers Annual Symposium Proceedings (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Photo Album: FLIGHT TEST

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	UH-60 RASCAL - First Flight Test. Credit: NASA.		JATO Flight Test Crew. Credit: NASA.
	Raptor 4001 completes its 300th flight hour with Lockheed Martin test pilot Paul Metz at the controls. Currently, the F-22 flight test fleet of three Raptors have logged 620 flight hours. (U.S. Air Force p.; photo by Judson Brohmer) ..		Dr. Lawrence Delaney, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, discusses various flight test programs at Edwards Air Force Base with Col. Perry Lamy, 412th Test Wing commander. (P.; photo by Kevin Robertson)..
	Tech. Sgt. Dan Stevens, 411th Flight Test Squadron, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., uses a non-contact infrared thermometer while curing the coating on an F-22 Raptor. To ensure Edwards AFB continues flight-testing large programs such as the F-22, the.		EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) -- An F-16 Fighting Falcon, piloted by Capt. Jim Less, 416th Flight Test Squadron, drops a Joint Direct Attack Munition equipped with the Direct Attack Munition Affordable Seeker during a recent test. .
	At Naval Air Station, Anacostia, D.C., wearing flight test markings. Original photograph is dated 21 April 1942, which is not supported by the post-May 1942 style national insignia on this, and the other planes present. It also identifies the plane as an F4F-4B model. However, the engine cowling seen here is of the type used on the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 powered F4F-3 and F4F-4 models, not that of the Wright R-1820 powered F4F-4B. Credit: NAVY.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expression: FLIGHT TEST

Expression using "FLIGHT TEST": flight test recorder. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: FLIGHT TEST

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
flight test	13
equipment flight test	3
flight test engineer	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: FLIGHT TEST

Language		Translations for "FLIGHT TEST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		repülési ellenõrzés, próbarepülés (test flight), berepülés (initial test flight, test flight). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		フライス盤 (false start, flight, flight bag, flight control, flight data recorder, flight engineer, flight recorder, flight-number, fly-fishing, flying, flying start, flywheel, fried chicken, fried potato, fright, fry pan, frying, frying pan, milling machine). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		フライトテスト . (various references)

Pig Latin		ightflay esttay

Portuguese		vôo de teste. (various references)

Spanish		testo de vuelo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: FLIGHT TEST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-g-h-i-l-s-t-t-t"
	-2 letters: lightest, tightest.
	-3 letters: fittest, flights, leftish, leftist, lithest, sleight, thistle, tittles.
	-4 letters: eights, elfish, fetish, fights, filets, filths, fliest, flight, flites, itself, legist, legits, lights, shtetl, sleigh, slight, stifle, thefts, theist, tights, tilths, tithes, titles, tittle.
	-5 letters: eight, feist, felts, fight, files, filet, filth, flesh, flies, flite, flits, gelts, gifts, gilts, hefts, heils, heist.
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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Expressions

5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography

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