fly in

English

Verb

fly in (third-person singular simple present flies in, present participle flying in, simple past flew in, past participle flown in)

1. (intransitive) To use a flying switch to switch train cars.
2. (of an aircraft) To land at an airfield.
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 233:

     Near by is the RAF museum at Duxford Airfield, open at weekends, which has a large display of aircraft. Trapped there is the prototype Concorde, which flew in but can never fly out, because the runway was shortened to make way for a motorway immediately after its arrival.