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flight-path angle

 
Sci-Tech Dictionary: flight-path angle
(′flīt ′path ′aŋ·gəl)

(aerospace engineering) The angle between the horizontal (or some other reference angle) and a tangent to the flight path at a point. Also known as flight-path slope.


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