1947 Science 7 Feb. 152/2 In areas characterized by heavy overflying the ratio was as high as 25,000.

1957 Times 19 Sept. 8 A proposal by South Africa that she should be granted certain over-flying rights in the High Commission Territories has been accepted in principle by the British Government.

1965 Listener 2 Sept. 338/1 Any society will have..its quota of nuclear installations where overflying is prohibited.

1992 S. Holloway Courage High! xxxi. 255/1 Add to that the enormous overflying of London and there was certainly a risk of a future air disaster which might involve an aircraft falling into water.

1600 A. Munday et al. First Pt. True Hist. Sir I. Old-castle sig. I4^v See we not sometime the eie of heauen, Dimmd with ouerflying clowdes.

1835 G. Darley Nepenthe 23 Beds of flowers whose odor limes The o'erflying fast far bird.

1863 J. W. Geary in War of Rebellion (U.S. War Dept.) (1890) 1st Ser. XXXI. ii. 395 Overflying shots told considerably upon Whitaker's ranks.

1973 Daily Tel. 17 Mar. 7/1 Mr Josefsson has been fighting for years to get rid of the Nato base at Keflavik, a vital link in tracking overflying Russian aircraft.

1991 Western Living June 45/1 In the catch pond, the duckweed provides a place for koi to hide from overflying great blue herons.