sortie
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- noun
- /ˈsɔrti/
- Specialized
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salida
- There was only one more training sortie scheduled that day, call-sign Whisper One-Seven, that was not identified by type of aircraft.
- one sortie
And at one point she was flying a training mission, a local sortie, and she ran the aircraft off the runway.
- And at one point she was flying a training mission, a local sortie, and she ran the aircraft off the runway.
Examples
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At the same time, Generals Calvin Jarrel and Brad Elliott had been waiting on the tarmac for the F-23 fighter pilots returning from their Powder Run sortie.
Fiction book (1991) -
The pilot completed the successful sortie over enemy territory.
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And at one point she was flying a training mission, a local sortie, and she ran the aircraft off the runway.
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Our sortie will proceed as planned.
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It's just a preliminary sortie.
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We flew a Sortie into Miranshah.
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Tomorrow morning, the battalion's sortie will lift away from the King Abdul Aziz Air Base airfield.
Fiction book (1999) -
By the time we flew our last sortie, in early September, the sea ice had noticeably moved in toward the shoreline at Point Barrow, maybe no more than a mile or two offshore.
Blog text (33) -
This is a normal training sortie, and you'll be accompanied... by a NATO representative, Commandant Derval... Major Derval of NATO.
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After months of training, the squadron launched its first operational sortie at dawn.
How Invasive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sortie comes from the French verb sortir, which means 'to go out' and is like exit. In air force language a sortie is one aircraft's single 'going out' on a mission, so it means one flight sent out to do a job.