Word: flypast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual, the Soviet feat raised more questions than it answered. Originally, the Soviets had launched two large (about one ton each) space vehicles-Venus II and III-within one week of each other last November. The announced purpose was a flypast on either side of Venus, sending back pictures of both views. This led some Western scientists to speculate that Venus III had crashed into Venus by mistake. Not so, announced Moscow, explaining that Venus III was intended to make a soft landing by means of a parachute, but failed. Soft or hard, Sir Bernard Lovell, the director of Britain...
...Drums. With this action, the state funeral closed and the private one began. Churchill's body crossed the Thames, once London's great avenue of trade and triumph, under a massed flypast of fighter planes, which dipped to 500 feet in tribute. At Festival pier, the coffin was placed in a private hearse and driven slowly to Waterloo station. There were no more parades or bands or flags or muffled drums. Accompanied by his family, Churchill's body was carried by special train some 60 miles into the heart of Oxfordshire, to rest beside the graves...
...otets (father) was understanding, and in 1949 Vasily, not yet 30 and a major general, was handed a juicy job: command of the air force in the Moscow military district. Proudly he led the flypast during May Day military exhibitions, devised formations that spelled "Glory to Stalin" in the skies over Moscow...
...third supersonic bomber, the medium-range Blinder. First seen in 1957 in prototype, the production model at last week's flypast featured a new tail turret, radar and radar-jamming equipment...
...conventional helicopter carrying a small house slung beneath it and capable of carrying 180 infantrymen (biggest U.S. model, due next year, will lift only 100). Though some of the planes on display were already known to Western aviation experts, and others were simply old models with new touches, the flypast made bunk out of Nikita's boast that Russia had consigned its warplanes to junk. Judging by what they saw, Western observers concluded that the Russians are roughly on a par with the U.S. in the quality of their fighters, clearly ahead in variety, if not quantity, of supersonic...