Holding (aeronautics)

In aviation, holding (or flying a hold) is a maneuver designed to delay an aircraft already in flight while keeping it within a specified airspace; i.e. "going in circles."

This article is about the flight maneuver. For a definition of the idiom "holding pattern", see the Wiktionary entry holding pattern.
For the novel, see Holding Pattern (novel).
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