Overflights in a sentence

Eisenhower knew from the earlier overflights that his hope of no Soviet detection was unrealistic, but ordered that the overflights stop if the aircraft could be tracked.

When Khrushchev condemned the United States U-2 flights, de Gaulle expressed to Khrushchev his disapproval of 18 near-simultaneous secret Soviet satellite overflights of French territory; Khrushchev denied knowledge of the satellite overflights.

Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary has complained that those strikes disrupt the ability of airlines to cross through French airspace, where overflights represent about 15% of European traffic, according to Eurocontrol.

Still, the possibility of overflights resuming would have a major impact on carriers.

Liggio’s team used 30 airplane overflights in the spring and summer of 2018 to sample and analyze what was in the air over a series of oilsands operations, open-pit and in situ.

All Int’l Airports remain closed for 4 weeks as said, except for Aircraft in distress and overflights,” he wrote.

Regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia has so far refrained from formalising ties with Israel but has given the green light to overflights from the Jewish state, in an implicit sign of approval.

The sultanate also allows U.S. military overflights and port visits.

Ground crews and overflights continue to monitor these for signs of new activity.

O’Leary said: “Many of these flights don’t even touch France, yet they will be disruptive because French ATC requires airlines to cancel overflights while they protect French domestic routes.

Problem now is helicopter overflights and related noise.

Turkish overflights in the Aegean continued on Sunday with two fighter jets entering Athens’s FIR, ignoring an informal moratorium on military activity that is customary between Greece and Turkey during major religious holidays.

After a few more overflights that year, only five more would occur before the May 1960 incident because of Eisenhower's increasing cautiousness.

Although Dulles remained reluctant to have the CIA conduct its own overflights, Land and James Killian of MIT told President Eisenhower about the aircraft; Eisenhower agreed that the CIA should be the operator.

At that time, the CIA depended on the military for overflights, and Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles favored human over technical intelligence gathering methods.

Despite the now much greater risk, the CIA failed to stop the overflights because of overconfidence from the years of successful missions, and because of the strong demand for more missile site photos.

Eisenhower remained concerned that despite their great intelligence value, overflights of the Soviet Union might cause a war.

Eisenhower turned down Dulles' offer to resign and publicly took full responsibility for the incident on 11 May; by then all overflights were canceled.

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.

In 104 overflights, five U-2s had been shot down, with three pilots killed and two captured.