overflight

English

Etymology

over- +‎ flight

Noun

overflight (plural overflights)

1. The flight of an aircraft over a particular place; used especially to refer to a flight over foreign or enemy territory.
   • 1987 May 9, Bod Lederer, “US Denies AIDS Bio War with Contradictions”, in Gay Community News, page 8:

     Nicaragua has been investigating the possibility that the 1985 outbreak of dengue fever along its Honduran border may have resulted from the release of infected mosquitos by U.S. reconnaissance overflights.

Related terms

• flyover (noun)
• flyover (adj)
• flyover country
• flyover state
• flypast
• overfly

Translations

flight over a place

• Danish: overflyvning (da) c
• Italian: sorvolo (it) m
• Spanish: sobrevuelo (es) m