flight range
Maximum airborne distance
Flight range is the maximum distance an aircraft, bird, or projectile can travel without refueling or stopping.
Airlines advertise the flight range of new jets; birdwatchers note the flight range of migratory species.
The term also applies to missiles and drones: The missile's flight range exceeded five hundred miles.
- aircraftAirborne transportation vehicle
- fuel efficiencyOutput per unit burned
- jet engineThrust-producing aircraft powerplant
- cruising altitudeSteady airborne elevation maintained
- migrationMovement to new territory
soaring · flapping · bird migration · wingspan · endurance · round trip · distance · roosting · point of no return · navigation · speed · aerodynamic drag · cargo transport · carbon footprint · fuel tank · fuel capacity · payload capacity · GPS tracking
- flight propertiesairspeed, altitude, speed, velocity, lift
- aviationaircraft, airports, airplane, airplanes, jets
- Supersonic JetsSST, Concorde, sonic boom, afterburners, delta wings
- vehicle specstowing, wheelbase, hauling, fuel economy, acceleration
- eVTOLair taxi, vertical takeoff, vertical landing, tiltrotor, tilt-rotor
- Odonatadragonflies, dragonfly, damselflies, damselfly, darners
flight rangeshort range
Covering minimal span
limited range · close range · stationary · grounded · immobility
flight rangegrounded
Stable and realistic
stationary · immobility · fixed position · earthbound · landlocked
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