on the deck
English edit
Prepositional phrase edit
- (aviation) Flying at a very low altitude.
- 1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, Hearings ... on Sundry Legislation Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments (issues 10–32, page 1340)
- The HAWK is one of the Army's newest air defense weapons. It is capable of carrying a modern warhead and of destroying attackers flying "on the deck" at such ranges as to insure effective protection of defended areas.
- 2008, Sydney Sharpe, Staying in the Game: The Remarkable Story of Doc Seaman, page 42:
- The fighters were flying “on the deck” — as close to the water as possible — to avoid detection.
- 1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, Hearings ... on Sundry Legislation Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments (issues 10–32, page 1340)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the, deck.