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fly-by|ˈflaɪbaɪ|
[f. verbal phr. to fly by (see fly v.1 1).]
a. = fly-past. orig. U.S.
1953Tandemeer 11 Dec. 2 On each day of the show there will be spectacular aerial flybys of jet planes. 1970Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 29 Apr. 2/8 As for the fly-by, it was now surmised that having once passed overhead, the same planes had flown out of sight, circled and returned again and again.
b. In space flights: a close approach to a celestial body for the purpose of observation; a spacecraft that makes such an approach.
1960Missiles & Rockets 31 Oct. 15/2 First Mariner mission will be a fly-by of Venus in 1962. 1961Ibid. 2 Jan. 14/1 One of the major questions in the fly-by program is money. 1961Flight 26 Oct. 653/2 Additional manœuvres carried out near to the target could reduce the dispersions still further so that it might be possible to accomplish close fly-bys, orbiters, or soft landings. 1962F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics v. 235 Fly-bys would be equipped with magnetometers to detect the general interplanetary field and Jupiter's field. 1967Listener 15 June 792/2 The surface [of Mars] was photographed [in 1965] at close range by the United States fly-by probe Mariner 4. 1969New Scientist 27 Feb. 439/1 The first of a pair of Mariner spacecraft should now be on its way to carry out an observation fly-by of Mars. |