flyover

noun flyovers · fly-over

1. US A low-level flight, especially of military aircraft, of a ceremonial nature; a flypast (British). Look closely at the commemorative flight suit patch for Super Bowl LX and you’ll notice what appears to be an anomaly: while the military aircraft flyover on Sunday is set to include Air Force B-1 Lancer bombers and F-15C Eagle fighters alongside Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets and F-35C Lightning fighter
2. Commonwealth, Ireland, Philippines, UK A road or railway that passes over another, allowing routes to cross without interruption. They form part of the vast electrification and reconstruction schemes which have been in hand for a number of years at Liverpool Street, and in suburban Essex, and include the rearrangement of tracks, of which the Ilford flyover forms part; the modern signal boxes, now needed only at key points; the

   Similar: overpass · Opposite: underpass, flyunder

3. US A high-level overpass built above main overpass lanes.
4. US, attributive, informal Middle America, noncoastal America. Boom Town may not be a definitive text—save that for the historians—but it’s a significant update, one that exchanges the dusty pop-cultural clichés of a “flyover” city for the spark of a sincerely enlightening place.