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flying bridge
noun
A (usually open) area on top of, or at the side of, a ship's pilothouse, serving as an operating station for the officers in good weather or when manoeuvring in port.
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Just as I started down the ladder from the flying bridge to the deck, I thought I saw a blow.
Standing next to Rachel on the tug's flying bridge, on the deck above the wheelhouse, he kept his face to the wind and his back ramrod straight, like a wooden figurehead.
The bailey was linked to the motte either by a flying bridge stretching between the two, or, more popularly in England, by steps cut into the motte.
In 1925 1926, a series of modifications were made to the ship, including increasing the height of the second funnel and the installation of a flying bridge at the base of the battle mast, which was shortened by 7 m.
That evening, Soult sent nine infantry battalions, three cavalry squadrons, and two artillery batteries, under Mortier's command, to the north bank across a flying bridge over the Guadiana river.
All wind-shields and/or Plexiglas that protrude over the flying bridge should be removed, packed with a cargo blanket and should be well secured below.
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It means robots can easily build a bridge that humans can walk over without fear, ushering in a new era of robotic flying bridge-making quadcopters.
Do they have a service bay for disassembly or reassembly of the radar arch or fly bridge?
Hundreds more took up station on the bows and fly bridges of the dozens of superyachts ringing the harbor.
The upper deck has a canvas party top, wet bar and fly bridge.
It has two bathrooms, a walk-through fly bridge, two 4.3-liter MerCruiser engines and a 7.5-kilowatt generator.
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