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  • verb Present participle of overfly.

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Examples

  • Hence, because the world is divided up into countries (as Buzzetti puts it), he is prevented by UN regulations from flying back home because he'd be overflying some of them!

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Yet no overflying German plane ever spotted this place during its three years of wartime operation.

    Country diary: Tempsford, Bedfordshire 2011

  • Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images A picture taken on board a supplying plane as it flew over Paris showed a CASA 235-200 M overflying the defense Paris business district during the Bastille Day military air parade.

    France Celebrates Bastille Day 2011

  • The book shows how successive governments hid the vast sums they spent on electronic intelligence and in the present day shows how the secret services have now turned to overflying our cities, hoovering up the data we carelessly let slip into the ether.

    Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011

  • This does not guarantee that the ISS is visible during every one of those nights; after all it may be overflying Britain only during daylight as it was last week.

    Spacewatch: International Space Station timings and positions 2011

  • Yet no overflying German plane ever spotted this place during its three years of wartime operation.

    Country diary: Tempsford, Bedfordshire 2011

  • The plane crashed into a military compound after overflying the airport.

    Report on UPS Jet's Crash Highlights Cargo of Batteries Andy Pasztor 2011

  • The whole issue is reentry not ascent power other then overflying other parts of the globe which may upset people.

    X-51 Waverider Set to Fly This Fall - NASA Watch 2009

  • He promised the Greeks that he would resolve the longstanding irritant of military jets from either side overflying each others 'territory.

    The Turkey-Iran Nuke Deal 2010

  • Gatwick airport, whilst stupidly located in a fog prone area, causes less low level overflying of urban areas but can be run no harder.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Not a sheep 2008

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