How to Use flight deck in a Sentence

flight deck

noun
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  • Stock The forearm should be deep to keep your hand away from the flight deck.
    — Anthony Licata, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
  • The top of the craft doubles as a stable flight deck for drones.
    — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Later, the group was allowed to stand on the flight deck as jets launched.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The fire spread quickly while dense smoke filled the cabin and flight deck.
    — John Cox, USA TODAY, 10 June 2018
  • Five sailors were killed in the Aug. 31 crash when the helicopter rolled off the flight deck into the sea.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2022
  • The pilot had kamikazed into the Zheng He's flight deck, right beneath the bridge.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The message was contained in a bean bag dropped on the Boxer’s flight deck.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2019
  • To take off, aircraft get a rolling start on the ship’s flight deck and then launch themselves from the ski ramp.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 June 2021
  • There was a gap between the flight deck and the fuselage; the wing didn’t attach securely to the body of the plane.
    — Maureen Tkacik, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Kirby told CBS News about the new effort to bring balance to the flight deck.
    — CBS News, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The clip includes a J-15 strike fighter landing on the ship’s flight deck.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Pilot was ‘kind of new to this’ On the flight deck, there are little bunk beds for the pilots.
    — Victoria Kennedy, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
  • As a result, the flight deck was extremely hot while the rest of the airplane was very cold.
    — John Cox, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2020
  • But airlines aren't just counting on AI to assist on the flight deck.
    — Alyson Behr, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2018
  • The two aviators on the jet ejected and landed on the flight deck — one of them in the burning wreckage of the jet.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Images showed significant burn marks around the flight deck and front of the A340.
    — Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, 11 June 2018
  • Russell’s tow-crew work gave him access to the flight deck of airplanes as a matter of course.
    — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
  • The force of bombs exploding on the flight deck punched down into the hangar and three decks underneath.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2023
  • Plus, the ship features a hangar and flight deck to embark at least one helicopter.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2021
  • But the Navy imposes strict limits on how many people can be on the flight deck at any time.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
  • That afternoon, the flames, hot enough to warp steel beams, danced along the flight deck and engulfed the ship’s outer structure.
    — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Crew members used a 70 mm camera to shoot the photo through windows on the shuttle's flight deck.
    — Joe Sterling, CNN, 23 Dec. 2017
  • At 999 feet long with a full-length flight deck, Liaoning easily stands out.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2018
  • While aviation fans and children could once hope to get a visit to the flight deck, that dream swiftly came to an end.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Its flight deck is more in common with the US Navy's amphibious assault ships.
    — Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Reuters reports that a 70-ton crane fell on the carrier when the drydock sank, punching a sixteen foot wide hole in the hull and flight deck of the ship.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Oct. 2018
  • The bureau is focused on finding the cockpit voice recorder, which would have captured the last two hours of what happened on the flight deck.
    — Mike Cherney, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
  • For starters, the flight deck doesn't overhang the bow, especially on the port side, as seen in Queen Elizabeth.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2021
  • The [first officer] said her headset was completely removed due to the rapid outflow of air from the flight deck.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • White icicle lights crisscrossed from decorative truss towers are on the carrier’s flight deck and nearly a dozen of Midway’s aircraft are wrapped in holiday lights.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023

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