Flyer or flier may refer to:

Common meanings

Aircraft pilot An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls. Some other aircrew members, such as navigators or flight engineers, are also considered aviators, because they a ...

, a person who flies an aircraft *

Flyer (pamphlet) A flyer (or flier) is a form of paper Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through fine ...

, a single-page leaflet

Arts and entertainment

Flyer (band) Flyer is a Croatian pop band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 1996. The members of the band are Petra Geber (''lead vocals''), Ivan Dumalovski (''guitar''), Ivo Dunat (''bass''), Zeljko Kozar (''drums'') and Mario Kovac (''keyboards''). In July 2003 ...

, a Croatian pop band * ''Flyer'' (album), by Nanci Griffith *

Flyer (New-Gen) Flyer (Jude Jackson) is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character appears in the NEW-GEN comic books. Created by Chris Matonti, J.D. Matonti, and Julia Coppola, he first appear ...

, a fictional Marvel Comics superhero *

American Flyer American Flyer is a brand of toy train and model railroad manufactured in the United States. The Chicago era, 1907–1938 Although best remembered for the S gauge trains of the 1950s that it made as a division of the A. C. Gilbert Compan ...

, a toy train and model railroad brand *

Singapore Flyer The Singapore Flyer; ta, சிங்கப்பூர் ராட்டினம் is an observation wheel at the Downtown Core district of Singapore. Officially opened on 15 April 2008, it has 28 air-conditioned capsules, each able to acco ...

, a giant Ferris wheel

Military uses

* , an American World War II submarine *

General Dynamics Flyer The Flyer Advanced Light Strike Vehicle platform has been developed by General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS), in partnership with Flyer Defense LLC, for the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Ground Mobility Vehicle Program ...

, an Advanced Light Strike Vehicle platform in development for the US military

People

* Flier (surname) *

Flyer (wrestler) Flyer (born October 3, 1994 in Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico) is the ring name of a Mexican ''Luchador enmascarado'', or masked professional wrestler. He is the grandson of Ramón Ibarra Banda who has wrestled as "Volador" and "Super Parka" over the ...

, ring name of a Mexican professional wrestler born 1994

Science and technology

Fast Low-Ionization Emission Region A Fast Low-Ionization Emission Region, or FLIER, is a volume of gas with low ionization, moving at supersonic speeds, near the symmetry axis of many planetary nebulae. Their outflow speeds are significantly higher than the nebulae in which they a ...

(FLIER), a poorly understood structure in some planetary nebulae *

HTC Flyer The HTC Flyer (also known as the HTC EVO View 4G) is a tablet computer by HTC Corporation. It was announced at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2011 and released in May 2011. Unlike other tablets announced at MWC, the Flyer has a single-core 1.5&nb ...

, a tablet computer released by HTC *

Flier (BEAM) BEAM robotics (from biology, electronics, aesthetics and mechanics) is a style of robotics that primarily uses simple Analogue electronics, analogue circuits, such as comparators, instead of a microprocessor in order to produce an unusually simple ...

, a type of robot that can fly

Sports

Ice hockey

Philadelphia Flyers The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia. The Flyers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference. The team plays its home games in Wells ...

, a National Hockey League team from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States *

Pensacola Ice Flyers The Pensacola Ice Flyers are a professional ice hockey team of the Southern Professional Hockey League. The team played their first season in 2009–10. Home games are played at the Pensacola Bay Center, previously home to the ECHL's Pensacola ...

, an ice hockey team from Pensacola, Florida, United States *

Spokane Flyers (senior) The Spokane Flyers were a senior ice hockey team based in Spokane, Washington. They played in the Western International Hockey League (WIHL) from the 1948–49 season to the 1979–80 season. The Flyers were the 1949–50 United States senior ch ...

, an ice hockey team from Spokane, Washington, United States *

Spokane Flyers (junior) The Spokane Flyers were a junior ice hockey team that played one and a half seasons in the Western Hockey League from 1980–1982. They played in Spokane, Washington, United States. History This team is not to be confused with the Spokane Flyer ...

, an ice hockey team from Spokane, Washington *

Fife Flyers Fife Flyers is the oldest professional ice hockey club in the UK, established in 1938. The Flyers play their home games at Fife Ice Arena in Kirkcaldy which has a capacity of just over 3000 (seated and standing). They joined the EIHL in 2011. ...

, an ice hockey team from Kirkcaldy, Scotland *

Kloten Flyers EHC Kloten is an ice hockey team based in the city of Kloten in Switzerland. The team plays in the National League (NL). It has one of the best youth systems in Swiss ice hockey as its youth teams have won 19 championships during the last 50 year ...

, an ice hockey team from Kloten, Switzerland *

Spektrum Flyers Spektrum Flyers was a short-lived ice hockey team from Oslo, Norway. A merger between Manglerud Star and Furuset, it played the 1994–95 and 1995–96 seasons in Eliteserien, the premier ice hockey league in Norway, with home games at Oslo Spek ...

, an ice hockey team from Oslo, Norway

Baseball

Fullerton Flyers The Fullerton Flyers were a professional baseball team based in Fullerton, California, in the United States. They were an independent franchise, not affiliated with either Major League Baseball ''or'' Minor League Baseball. The team played from 20 ...

, a baseball team from Fullerton, California, United States *

Panama City Fliers The Panama City Fliers were a minor league baseball team based in Panama City, Florida, that operated in the Alabama–Florida League. They were founded in 1951 as an affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. In 1958, they were affiliated with the San Franc ...

, a minor league baseball team based in Panama City, Florida, United States *

Schaumburg Flyers The Schaumburg Flyers were a professional baseball team based in Schaumburg, Illinois, in the United States. The Flyers were to be charter members of the North American League, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball, but the team fol ...

, a baseball team from Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

School teams

Dayton Flyers The Dayton Flyers are the intercollegiate athletic teams of the University of Dayton of Dayton, Ohio. All Flyers intercollegiate sports teams participate at the NCAA Division I level. The football team competes in the Division I FCS non-schola ...

, athletic teams of the University of Dayton, Ohio * Flyers, the sports teams of

Waynflete School Waynflete School is a private, coeducational, college preparatory day school established in 1898 for early childhood education (from age 3) to twelfth grade, in Portland, Maine. History In 1898, Waynflete School was established by Agnes Lowell ...

, Portland, Maine * Flyers and Lady Flyers, the sports teams of

Franklin County High School (Kentucky) Franklin County High School is the largest of three public high schools in Frankfort, Kentucky, United States, and is one of two high schools operated by Franklin County Public Schools. The campus also houses the Franklin County Career & Technica ...

Other sports

Fort Worth Flyers The Fort Worth Flyers were a minor league basketball team in the NBA Development League (D-League) based in Fort Worth, Texas. They began play in the 2005–06 season and were shut down for the 2007–08 season. Franchise history In 2005, Sout ...

, a basketball team from Fort Worth, Texas, United States * Flyer, a position in cheerleading stunts

Transportation

Automobiles

* Flyer (1913 automobile), manufactured by the Flyer Motor Car Company in Michigan, United States, from 1913 to 1914 *

Alpena Flyer The Alpena Flyer was an American automobile manufactured between 1910 and 1914 in Alpena, Michigan by the Alpena Motor Car Company. Approximately 480 cars in 13 models were produced, costing around $1,500, and just one car is known to exist today. T ...

, an American automobile manufactured between 1910 and 1914 in Alpena, Michigan *

BYD Flyer The BYD Flyer is a 5-door city car originally developed by government owned Xian Qinchuan Automobile and went on sale from 2001 to 2005. It has been produced by BYD, a Chinese automobile manufacturer in Shenzhen, from 2005 to 2008. The three- and ...

, manufactured by BYD Auto in Shenzhen, China, since 2004 *

Smith Flyer The Smith Flyer was an American automobile manufactured by the A.O. Smith Company in Milwaukee from 1915 until about 1919 when the manufacturing rights were sold to Briggs & Stratton and it was renamed to Briggs & Stratton Flyer. History T ...

, manufactured by A.O. Smith Company in Milwaukee, United States, from 1915 until about 1919 * Thomas Flyer, manufactured by

Thomas Motor Company E. R. Thomas Motor Company was a manufacturer of motorized bicycles, motorized tricycles, motorcycles, and automobiles in Buffalo, New York between 1900 and 1919. Motorized bicycles, tricycles, and motorcycles In 1896, E.R Thomas (1850 – 193 ...

Aviation

Wright Flyer The ''Wright Flyer'' (also known as the ''Kitty Hawk'', ''Flyer'' I or the 1903 ''Flyer'') made the first sustained flight by a manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft—an airplane—on December 17, 1903. Invented and flown b ...

, the first powered aircraft, built and flown by the Wright Brothers in 1903 *

Abramovich Flyer The Abramovich Flyer was an early aircraft built by Russian aviator Vsevolod Mikhailovich Abramovich in 1912, based on the Wright brothers' designs he had seen while working for their German subsidiary. Differences from the Wright designs of th ...

, a biplane built by Vsevolod Abramovich in 1912 *

Fisher Flyer The Fisher Flyer was a single seat tricycle landing gear biplane ultralight aircraft first flown by Michael Fisher in July 1980. It was the first aircraft designed by Fisher and became the first of more than 3500 Fisher aircraft flying by 2007 ...

, a single-engined ultralight biplane built by Michael Fisher in 1980 *

Kolb Flyer The Kolb Flyer is an American single seat, high wing, strut-braced, twin-engine, pusher configuration, conventional landing gear-equipped ultralight aircraft that was produced in kit form by Kolb Aircraft of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and in ...

, a twin-engined ultralight monoplane produced in kit form by Kolb Aircraft from 1980 to 1982 *

Pfitzner Flyer The Pfitzner Flyer was an innovative monoplane designed in 1909 by Alexander Pfitzner and built by the Curtiss company at Hammondsport, NY, where Pfitzner was employed at the time. The Flyer was the first monoplane designed, built and flown ...

, a monoplane designed by Alexander Pfitzner in 1909 *

Flyer Indústria Aeronáutica Flyer Indústria Aeronáutica Ltda is a Brazilian manufacturer of ultralight aircraft. History The company was founded in 1983 by Luiz Claudio Gonçalves, who worked together with Homer Kolb on the further development of the Kolb Flyer, the K ...

, a Brazilian manufacturer of ultralight aircraft *

Flyer F600 NG __NOTOC__ The Flyer F600 NG is an ultralight aircraft from the Brazilian manufacturer Flyer Industria Aeronáutica, Eireli. Design and development The Flyer F600 NG is a modern further development of the Kolb Flyer developed by the US-American ...

, an ultralight aircraft from the Brazilian manufacturer Flyer Industria Aeronáutica Ltda. * ''FLYER'' (magazine), a monthly UK aviation publication

Ships

* ''Flyer'' (yacht), with which Conny van Rietschoten won the 1977–1978 Whitbread Round the World Race * ''Flyer II'' (yacht), with which Conny van Rietschoten won the 1981–1982 Whitbread Round the World Race * ''Flyer'' (steamboat), a passenger ship which operated on Puget Sound from 1891 to 1930 * USNS ''Flyer'', a cargo ship launched in 1944

Trains

Australia

Newcastle Flyer The Newcastle Flyer was an Australian passenger express train that operated from November 1929 until April 1988 connecting New South Wales' two largest cities, Sydney and Newcastle. Early history On 1 May 1889 the first trains began running bet ...

, an express passenger service connecting Newcastle and Sydney from 1929 to 1988

New Zealand

Kingston Flyer The Kingston Flyer is a vintage steam train in the South Island of New Zealand at the southern end of Lake Wakatipu. It used 14 kilometres of preserved track that once formed a part of the Kingston Branch. Originally, Kingston Flyer was a passen ...

, a vintage steam service begun in 1982 *

Kingston Flyer (train) The Kingston Flyer is a vintage steam train in the South Island of New Zealand at the southern end of Lake Wakatipu. It used 14 kilometres of preserved track that once formed a part of the Kingston Branch (New Zealand), Kingston Branch. Original ...

, an express passenger service operated between the 1890s and 1957 * ''

Taranaki Flyer The ''Taranaki Flyer'' was the name given to a passenger train that was operated by the New Zealand Railways Department between Whanganui and New Plymouth from 1926 to 1965. Introduction The primary passenger service on the Marton–New Plym ...

'', a passenger service between New Plymouth and Wanganui which ended in 1959

United States

* Century Flyer, an historic narrow-gauge train * ''

Berkshire Flyer The ''Berkshire Flyer'' is a seasonal Amtrak passenger train service between New York City and the Berkshire Mountains in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, via the Hudson Valley. The weekly train departs Penn Station on Friday afternoons during the s ...

'', a seasonal Amtrak passenger train service between New York City and the Berkshire Mountains in Pittsfield, Massachusetts * ''

Champlain Flyer The ''Champlain Flyer'' was a commuter train service in Vermont that ran from 2000 to 2003 between Burlington, South Burlington, Shelburne, and Charlotte, in the eastern Champlain Valley. The Vermont Railway operated the route along the former ...

'', a commuter service connecting Burlington, Shelburne, and Charlotte, in Vermont, from 2000 to 2003 * ''

Heartland Flyer The ''Heartland Flyer'' is a daily passenger train that follows a route between Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Fort Worth, Texas. It is operated by Amtrak and jointly funded by the states of Oklahoma and Texas. The train's daily round-trip begins ...

'', a passenger train between Fort Worth, Texas, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, begun in 1999 * ''

Valley Flyer The ''Valley Flyer'' was a short-lived named passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The all-heavyweight, "semi-streamlined" train ran between Bakersfield and Oakland, California (through California's San Joaquin Vall ...

'', a passenger service between Bakersfield and Oakland, in California, from 1939 to 1942

Buses

Flyer (bus service) Flyer is the current brand name of a trio of bus services that call at Leeds Bradford Airport in England. Numbered A1, A2 and A3, the routes serve a range of towns and cities in Yorkshire including Leeds, Bradford and Harrogate. History The route ...

, bus services to Leeds Bradford Airport *

Spondon Flyer Spondon Flyer was a bus service in Derby, England operated by Trent Barton. History Until 2017 the service operated as a direct service between Derby and Spondon with a frequency of every 10 minutes and buses travelled in both directions around ...

, a bus service in England

Other uses

Flier (fish) The flier (''Centrarchus macropterus'') is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a sunfish from the Family (biology), family Centrarchidae which is Endemism, endemic to the southern United States of America. It is the only species in the mono ...

(''Centrarchus macropterus''), a sunfish native to the southern United States * ''

Memphis Flyer The ''Memphis Flyer'' is a free weekly alternative newspaper serving the greater Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Shelby County in the southwest part of the state; it is situated along th ...

'', a free weekly alternative newspaper * Filmotype Flyer, typeface produced by Filmotype * Flyer, one of the two components of a

flying buttress The flying buttress (''arc-boutant'', arch buttress) is a specific form of buttress composed of an arch that extends from the upper portion of a wall to a pier of great mass, in order to convey lateral forces to the ground that are necessary to pu ...

* Flyer, a U-shaped mechanism in a

spinning wheel A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn from fibres. It was fundamental to the cotton textile industry prior to the Industrial Revolution. It laid the foundations for later machinery such as the spinning jenny and spinning f ...

, invented in the late 15th century * Flyer, a female

kangaroo Kangaroos are four marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern gre ...