How to Use flight deck in a Sentence

flight deck

noun
  • The top of the craft doubles as a stable flight deck for drones.
    — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The fire spread quickly while dense smoke filled the cabin and flight deck.
    — John Cox, USA TODAY, 10 June 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
  • Stock The forearm should be deep to keep your hand away from the flight deck.
    — Anthony Licata, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
  • On long-haul flights, pilots sharing a flight deck can’t eat the same food.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Up on the flight deck, military aircraft land and launch.
    — Kaicey Baylor, CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • 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
  • The message was contained in a bean bag dropped on the Boxer’s flight deck.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Plus, the ship features a hangar and flight deck to embark at least one helicopter.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • There are dugout suites, luxury suites and outdoor areas for groups called flight decks.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 31 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • But airlines aren't just counting on AI to assist on the flight deck.
    — Alyson Behr, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2018
  • 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
  • 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 technology on the flight deck is improving all the time.
    — Alex Ledsom, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The flight deck features nine helicopter landing spots.
    — Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • The flight deck features nine helicopter landing spots.
    — Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The pilot had kamikazed into the Zheng He's flight deck, right beneath the bridge.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The clip includes a J-15 strike fighter landing on the ship’s flight deck.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • The vessel has a length of 1,092 feet and its flight deck width will be 256 feet.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
  • They were lifted to the flight deck on one of the carrier’s elevators.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2021
  • 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
  • At 999 feet long with a full-length flight deck, Liaoning easily stands out.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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

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