Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "low-flying".
One of the most recent comes from Canada where a group of out-doorsmen on the Cowichan River in British Columbia watched a low-flying object in October 1973.
Canada where a group of out-doorsmen on the Cowichan River in British Columbia watched a low-flying object in October 1973.
Jones had heard all sorts of things on it, subs and surface ships all the time, low-flying aircraft on occasion.
Taking shelter beneath the womblike bulge of two ebony towers, he watched as one of the low-flying vehicles swept past overhead.
Captain Krawzmyuh had to almost shout to make himself heard above the angry cawings of the crows and ravens, the flapping of the wings of low-flying buzzards anxious to return to their grisly feasting.
The trap was set and the elephants were coming straight into it, chivvied and sheep-dogged by the low-flying Cessna.
There were a few scattered mobile antiaircraft artillery emplacements, and the shipborne Aegis, Standard, and Sea Wolf antiaircraft missile systems represented a significant threat, but those would not be able to engage a fast-moving low-flying stealthy target in time.
It was mid-morning and the heat haze was rising like fog, shrouding the Bitter Lake and the straight dark line of the Canal, which is the best landmark a low-flying pilot could wish for.
When the sun came up it would bring another day of heat, and the dry, swirling winds would send the diamond dust along in low-flying clouds.
Roland kept expecting it to reach out and grab them, as it had grabbed the low-flying bird when they had been here on the night of the Peddler's Moon.
This terrain was no picnic for a ground vehicle, but it was downright dangerous for a low-flying saucer on a tether.
The S-300 air defense system, one of the best all-altitude long-range surface-to-air missile systems in the world, had managed to pick up the low-flying helicopter ninety kilometers away even though it was only four hundred meters above the desert-the S-300's powerful multiscan radar could pick up aircraft as low as thirty meters' altitude or as high as thirty thousand meters and as far as three hundred kilometers away.
Their husbands weren't going to be parachuting out of airplanes or helocasting— jumping from low-flying helicopters into the ocean below—as they inserted into enemy territory.
But the low-flying aerial lens was clearly an extremely powerful instrument, and if wielded on the surface to anywhere near its full capacity, it would volatilize hundreds of millibars of gases into the atmosphere, much of it CO2, which according to Sax's single-phase model they did not want, and which in any sensible course of action would stay bonded in the regolith.
But the low-flying aerial lens was clearly an extremely powerful instrument, and if wielded on the surface to anywhere near its full capacity, it would volatilize hundreds of millibars of gases into the atmosphere, much of it CO2, which according to Sax’s single-phase model they did not want, and which in any sensible course of action would stay bonded in the regolith.