Recent Examples on the WebTo map the resources, workers will use an airborne electromagnetic survey, known as overflights.—William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 5 May 2023 Questions around route designing that supports equity in access and overflight are important ones to explore and answer.—Harrison Wolf, Forbes, 5 May 2023 Ethiopia also provided overflight and refueling support, said Molly Phee, assistant Secretary of State for African affairs.—Sarah Rumpf-whitten, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2023 Ethiopia also provided overflight and refueling support, said Molly Phee, assistant secretary of state for African affairs.—Matthew Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2023 Freedom of overflight in international airspace includes the act of monitoring activities inside another state’s territory, as long as the monitoring occurs from within international airspace.—Ashley S. Deeks, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023 In August of 1987, Congress created the National Parks Overflights Act, asking the National Park Service (NPS) to identify the overflight problems in its system.—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 6 Mar. 2023 The Defense Department declined to comment about the overflight of the carrier strike group.—Evan Hill, Cate Cadell, Ellen Nakashima And Christian Shepherd, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2023 When the surrender ceremony was completed, MacArthur staged an overflight of more than 1,500 Navy warplanes and 400 B-29s, the super bomber that had dropped the most destructive weapon ever devised, the atomic bomb, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to hasten Japan’s unconditional surrender.—Arthur L. Herman, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020 See More
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