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overflight|ˈəʊvəflaɪt|
[f. over- 4 + flight n.1]
The flight of an aircraft over specified territory without landing. Formerly also used of birds. Also transf.
1598Florio Worlde of Wordes 383/1 Soruólo, an ouerflight, a surflight. 1883J. S. Stallybrass tr. Grimm's Teutonic Mythol. III. xxxv. 1133 Our early ages appear also to have seen a meaning in the overflight of certain birds. 1958Times 8 Aug. 7/2 United States aircraft have now been given permission to fly over, but it was not clear yesterday whether British aircraft had permission. The question of overflights has been given much prominence. 1960N.Y. Times 12 June 6e/2 The U-2 reconnaissance ‘overflights’ provided, by aerial photography and tape recording of Soviet radio and radar emissions, the most important intelligence gathered by the C.I.A. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 ii. 37 The can [of hair spray] hit the floor, something broke,..propelling the can swiftly about the bathroom. She looked up,..her field of vision cut across by wild, flashing overflights of the can, whose pressure seemed inexhaustible. 1970C. Duerden Noise Abatement v. 88 Overflights are the problem. Once they are experienced, the reaction of the general public will be the deciding factor and supersonic flights may be prohibited over this country. 1970New Scientist 1 Oct. 37/2 A single supersonic overflight cracked 95 per cent of the eggs of the terns breeding on the Dry Tortugas in Florida. 1973Sci. Amer. Feb. 17/3 When Francis Gary Powers was shot down in May, 1960, the U-2 overflights ended, except for certain minor incursions. 1976Daily Tel. 21 Jan. 2/6 It was bewildering that Britain and France, builders of the plane [sc. Concorde], did not allow supersonic overflights. |