Meaning of Preflight | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An inspection of an aircraft before the start of a flight.
2. The portion of the movement after launching from the springboard but before pushing off the vault.

Equivalents

Examples

“Between the preflight and postflight is the block, a rapid motion in which the gymnast’s hands hit the vault and she pushes herself off, converting the horizontal momentum from her sprint down the runway into vertical momentum.”

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