postflight

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ flight.

Adjective

postflight (not comparable)

1. After a flight.
   • 2007 September 4, John Berg, “Time on the Greens Beats Time at the Gate”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 10 January 2021:

     The great game of golf offered an antidote to the inevitable dead space — blocks of difficult-to-use hours, pre- and postflight — that are one of business travel’s biggest drags.

Noun

postflight (plural postflights)

1. (gymnastics) The portion of the movement after pushing off the vault but before landing on the mat.
   • 2024 July 27, Maggie Astor, “Your Guide to Olympic Gymnastics: Vault”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 31 July 2024:

     Between the preflight and postflight is the block, a rapid motion in which the gymnast’s hands hit the vault and she pushes herself off, converting the horizontal momentum from her sprint down the runway into vertical momentum.