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Then they return to Buckingham Palace to wave from the balcony and probably exchange a kiss, as two formations of Royal Air Force aircraft roar overhead in what the British call a fly-past.

William and Kate plan modern wedding 2011

We'll be all over the service, the procession, the dress, the kiss, the fly-past, the parties – and all the rights and wrongs of royalism and republicanism –right here, all day.

Royal wedding – live blog 2011

Agence France-Presse/Getty Images In this photograph taken on January 28, 2010, an Indian Army Chetak helicopter, a licence-built version of the French Alouette III and successor of the smaller Cheetah utility helicopter, makes a fly-past during a National Cadet Corps parade in New Delhi.

Pakistan Releases Indian Air Crew Tom Wright 2011

A real, eardrum-rattling, fly-past would have looked like an RAF raid on Schwenningen.

Cheers! English wine challenges champagne with sparkling results 2011

I see, most regrettably, that the government has caved in, for the umpteenth time, to Irish Republicans by cancelling a fly-past by the RAF over Belfast on Sunday.

What Sunday has already taught us. O'Neill 2008

A brief fly-past, citizens, to bring you the news that David Cameron is sorry that his party has been totally unable to detect the oncoming debt crisis and resulting recession over the last decade despite the frequent Proverbs of St Vince in and out of the House.

Saying sorry - the new PR arms race Alix Mortimer 2009

A brief fly-past, citizens, to bring you the news that David Cameron is sorry that his party has been totally unable to detect the oncoming debt crisis and resulting recession over the last decade despite the frequent Proverbs of St Vince in and out of the House.

Cor! And other stories… Alix Mortimer 2009

Opening extract: At Chatham Historic Dockyard today, a party of VIPs, headed by the Prime Minister and Duke of Gloucester representing the Royal Family, will gather for a parade and fly-past to mark Britain's first Armed Forces Day.

OPEN THREAD 2009

The stadium lights were extinguished and a minute's silence held in remembrance of soldiers past and present, a fly-past by an RAF helicopter underlining the significance of their sacrifices.

Archive 2008-11-01 DAVID BISHOP 2008

In a January interview with Edward Goldstein of NASA Public Affairs, in honor of the then-impending launch of the New Horizons spacecraft, now en route to a 2015 fly-past of Pluto, Venetia explained how it all came about.

The little girl who named Pluto Edward Willett 2006