maiden flight

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   the first flight of its kind

   “the Stealth bomber made its maiden flight in 1989”

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Questions about maiden flight

What does maiden flight mean?

maiden flight means "the first flight of its kind".

Is maiden flight a common word?

maiden flight is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.