flight

a formation of aircraft in flight an instance of traveling by air

"flying was still an exciting adventure for him" a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next the act of escaping physically

"he made his escape from the mental hospital"

"the canary escaped from its cage"

"his flight was an indication of his guilt" an air force unit smaller than a squadron passing above and beyond ordinary bounds

"a flight of fancy"

"flights of rhetoric"

"flights of imagination" the path followed by an object moving through space a flock of flying birds a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports

"I took the noon flight to Chicago" shoot a bird in flight fly in a flock

"flighting wild geese" decorate with feathers

"fledge an arrow"

This article concerns the process of flying. For other meanings see Flight (disambiguation).''----Flight is the process of flying: either movement through the air by aerodynamically generating Lift (force)lift or Lighter than airaerostatically using buoyancy, or movement beyond earth's atmosphere by spacecraft.

Animal flight - The most successful groups of living things that fly are insect insects, bird birds, and bat bats. Each of these groups' wing wings evolutionevolved separately from different structures.Pterosaur Pterosaurs were a group of flying vertebrate vertebrates contemporaneous with the dinosaur dinosaurs.Bat Bats are the only mammal mammals capable of true flight. However, there are several gliding mammals which are able to glide from tree to tree using fleshy membranes between their limbs; some can travel hundreds of metres in this way with very little loss of height. Flying tree frog Flying tree frogs use greatly enlarged webbed feet for a similar purpose, and there are flying lizard flying lizards which employ their unusually wide, flattened rib-cages to the same end. Certain snake snakes also use a flattened rib-cage to fly, with a back and forth motion much the same as they use on the ground.Flying fish can glide using enlarged wing-like fins, and have been observed soaring for hundreds of metres using the updraft on the leading edges of waves. It is thought that they evolved this ability to help them escape from underwater predators.Most bird birds fly (''see bird flight''), with some exceptions. The largest birds, the ostrich and the emu, are earthbound, as were the now-extinct dodo dodos, while the non-flying penguin penguins have adapted their wings for use under water. Most small flightless birds are native to small islands, and lead a lifestyle where flight would confer little advantage.
The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest animal in the world; its terminal velocity exceeds 320 km/h (199 mph) while diving down on its prey.Among living animals that fly, the wandering albatross has the greatest wingspan, up to 3.5 metres (11.5 feet), and the trumpeter swan perhaps the greatest weight, at 17 kilograms (38 pounds).Among the (probably million millions of) species of insect insects, some fly and others do not.Fictional:

Dumbo, the Disney-created elephant, employs his comically oversized ears as wings for flight.

Many Dragon dragons are depicted with wings capable of flight.

Superman is a well known superhero in comic books, cartoons, and films; unaided flight is among the various super powers he is portrayed to obtain from the yellow rays of earth earth's sun. Most flight-capable fictional comic book superheroes are said to fly by sheer will rather than by telekinetically levitating themselves. Jean Grey of the X-men is an exception who uses telekinesis to levitate slightly above ground.

Mechanical flight - Flying machines are aircraft, including aeroplanes, helicopters, airships and balloons, and spacecraft.In the case of an aeroplane flight involves

Taxiing

Take off

Climb

Cruise (flight)Cruise

Descent (aircraft)Descent

Landing''See aviation history for the history of mechanical flight.''

See also -

Amelia Earhart

Alberto Santos-Dumont

Armen Firman

Aviation

Aircraft

Charles Lindbergh

Instrument flight rulesInstrument Flight Rules

Levitation

Model aircraft

Ornithopter

Public transport service numbering

Visual flight

Visual Flight Rules

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