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scud run

scud run verb: to fly below the bases of low clouds and close to the ground in an attempt to maintain external visual reference in weather ordinarily considered too poor for visual flying.

Verb

scud run (third-person singular simple present scud runs, present participle scud running, simple past and past participle scud ran)

  1. To fly below the bases of low clouds and close to the ground in an attempt to maintain external visual reference in weather ordinarily considered too poor for visual flying.
    • When the weather worsened, the pilot elected to scud run and flew into a hill three miles past the end of the runway. I wisely elected to wait until conditions improved.

Forms of scud run

third-person singular presentscud runs
present participlescud running
past participlescud ran
pastscud ran

Questions about scud run

What does scud run mean?
Scud run means to fly below the bases of low clouds and close to the ground in an attempt to maintain external visual reference in weather ordinarily considered too poor for visual flying.
What part of speech is scud run?
Scud run is a verb.
What is the past tense of scud run?
The past tense of scud run is scud ran.

Words near scud run in the dictionary

  1. scuchins
  2. scuchion
  3. scuchions
  4. scud
  5. scud ran
  6. scud run
  7. scud running
  8. scud runs
  9. Scudamore
  10. scudded
  11. scudder

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