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Overfly meaning
To fly over something. | To fly too far past something.
Example sentences (5)
Even then, after China realized the balloons were simply high-profile civilian efforts, the Swiss team was ordered to stay on the periphery of the country and expressly forbidden to overfly central China.
Maybe no one in Beijing believed that the Red Zeppelin would be allowed to overfly the entire United States.
Additionally, the bombers could use long-range weapons to strike known air defenses, and then overfly them to deliver precision strikes with freefall nuclear bombs.
The effective loiter time of incoming Argentine aircraft was low, and they were later compelled to overfly British forces in any attempt to attack the islands.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are also used for much aerial reconnaissance in the 21st century, being able to overfly hostile territory without putting human pilots at risk, as well as being smaller and harder to detect than man-carrying aircraft.