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  2. Bar-tailed godwit - Wikipedia

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    The flight was not found to induce ceremonial flight in neighboring males. There are 4 stages in ceremonial flights: (1) ascent, (2) limping flight, (3) gliding, and (4) descent to attract the females. There are 3 categories in ceremonial flights: (A) A straight line, (B) performing 1 or more circles, (C) wide circles.

  3. Flypast - Wikipedia

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    An Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400 flew in Lord of the Rings livery in a historic flight over Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Gisborne and Napier, "enabling more than two million people, one in two New Zealanders, to share in the excitement of The Lord of the Rings". This was the first time that a 747-400 had undertaken such a flypast in New Zealand.

  4. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

  5. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    flight lieutenant an Air Force officer rank (US: captain) flypast ceremonial flight of aircraft (US: flyby) [77] [78] flyover a road crossing over another road (US: overpass) footie (slang) football (US: soccer) fortnight * a period of 14 days (and nights) or two weeks freephone

  6. Purdue Airport to host ceremonial first flight ... - AOL

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    As commercial flight returns to the Purdue University Airport in May, a ground breaking for the new Amelia Earhart Terminal and a ceremonial first flight are scheduled for May 14.

  7. Flyover - Wikipedia

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    Flypast or flyby, a celebratory display or ceremonial flight, a ceremonial or honorific flight of one or more aircraft. Flyover reconnaissance, close-up aircraft reconnaissance; Flyover rights, the right to fly over a foreign country without landing; Aerial survey; Flyover country, a derisive term for the central areas of the United States

  8. Flyby - Wikipedia

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    Flypast or flyover, a celebratory display or ceremonial flight; Flyby (spaceflight), a spaceflight operation; Planetary flyby, a type of flyby mission; Gravity assist or swing-by, a type of flyby making use of the gravity field of a passed celestial body; Fly-by, circuit topology used in DDR3 SDRAM memory technology

  9. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...