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- noun Plural form of
flypast .
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Examples
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Yet the bandwagon of confected patriotism rolls on, stadium flypasts are commonplace, and sport is co-opted for military purposes just as glibly as it is for political or religious ends.
Wheel out a Major Dan Rooney and people on British streets would laugh Marina Hyde 2010
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One can only assume that the level of outrage was born of fear that the unholy marriage between militarism and sport could happen here, and that unless any instance of it on our soil were protested in the strongest possible terms, there would be Tornado flypasts at the Manchester derby before we knew it.
Wheel out a Major Dan Rooney and people on British streets would laugh Marina Hyde 2010
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There will be fireworks and military parades, flypasts by the air force, and prize certificates dropped by air across all of Egypt's sprawling provinces.
Egypt: one year on, the young heroes of Tahrir Square feel a chill wind 2012
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My childhood was surrounded by the reverberating echoes of the great conflict begun only 25 years previously, and there were still Spitfires and Hurricanes in flypasts.
All This And World War Two Zoe Brain 2007
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My childhood was surrounded by the reverberating echoes of the great conflict begun only 25 years previously, and there were still Spitfires and Hurricanes in flypasts.
Archive 2007-05-01 Zoe Brain 2007
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Attended by about 20,000 people, the event was marked by spectacular display of military parades, flypasts and parachutists landing on the rugby field of Durban's Absa stadium.
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The crowd and live television audience were treated to a spectacular display of military parades, flypasts and parachutists.
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While the celebrity-laden R47 million inauguration, complete with 21-gun salute and flypasts by helicopters, fighter jets and jumbos, was reminiscent of Mandela's inauguration five years ago,
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Flying in close formation, the aircraft - piloted by senior captains Laurie Kay, Scully Levine and Jeff Birch - made several flypasts over the crowd of about 50,000 people.
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The 21-gun salute, flypasts by air force helicopters, a Cheetah jet and three SA Airways Boeings - which disrupted the last few sentences of Mbeki's inaugural address - were all reminiscent of
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