overflight

Noun

Meaning

a flight by an aircraft over a particular area (especially over an area in foreign territory)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

flight flying survey crossing span browser hover flyover skydive airspace overview browsing overfly flew flown
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Antonyms

static

Hypernyms

flight flying

Related terms

flyover overfly flypast flyover country flyover state

Examples

He had been forewarned of the R-7s capabilities by information derived from U2 spy plane overflight photos as well as signals and telemetry intercepts. Source: Internet

For example, sometimes aircraft noise is studied by measuring ambient sound without presence of any overflights, and then studying the noise addition by measurement or computer simulation of overflight events. Source: Internet

He overflew the South Pole with pilot Bernt Balchen on November 28 and 29, 1929, to match his overflight of the North Pole in 1926. Source: Internet

Soviet interceptors continued to fail to reach the U-2s but, after the Soviets protested a December overflight of Vladivostok by RB-57Ds, Eisenhower again forbade communist overflights. Source: Internet

The U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla., conducts an overflight to survey the damage from Hurricane Laura near Orange, Texas, on August 27. Photo by PO3 Paige Hause/U. Source: Internet

One British U-2 overflight meanwhile occurred in December, and another in February 1960, but neither proved nor disproved the missile gap. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

overflew overflexed overflexion overfloat overflood overflorid