The phrase "airplane path" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the trajectory or route that an airplane follows during flight.
Example: "The airplane path was carefully plotted to avoid any restricted airspace."
Alternatives: "flight path" or "aircraft route".
Unlike the other sites, Governors Island would not interfere with airplane paths, nor has it yet posed any similar safety issues, but legislators say other concerns about the environment and development of the island would get in the way.
They have a general respect for anything that flies and make a point of staying out of airplane flight paths.
Given adequate warning, the remaining hazards may be dealt with by changing operations mode -- for example, by changing airplane flight paths or by operating a power grid in "safe" mode.
In an airplane, the flight path of the wing is fixed in relation to its forward flight; in a helicopter, the flight path of the rotor advances forward (to the helicopter's nose) and then rearward (to the helicopter's tail) in the process of its circular movement.
Comparing to the company's mission to an airplane's flight path, Armstrong said selling to Verizon was not changing direction but, rather, "extending the tarmac".
(From "Airplane!" of course).
Tactical airpower failed the Allies in 1940 because they based their ideas on an assumption about the accuracy and effectiveness of level bombing which everyone knew was untenable: It was next to impossible for an airplane flying a level path over a bridge to hit it with bombs.
Because of the accident airplane's intended flight path, the NTSB believes that the pilot may have wanted to climb out of the uncontrolled VFR corridor into the controlled Class B airspace above.
If a volcano has gone off somewhere along your destined flight path, the airplane cannot travel through the volcanic ash particulates.
"There are obviously security considerations because of the unique location of National Airport, which literally puts the airplanes on the flight path to and from National, seconds away from many major federal facilities".
