Flyer or flier may refer to:
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aviator
An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its Aircraft flight control system, directional flight controls. Some other aircrew, aircrew members, such as navigators or flight engineers, are al ...
, a person who flies an aircraft
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Flyer (pamphlet), a single-page leaflet
Music
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''Flyer'' (album), by Nanci Griffith
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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
Sports
*Flyer, a position in
cheerleading stunts
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Fife Flyers, an ice hockey team from Kirkcaldy, Scotland
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Kloten Flyers, an ice hockey team from Kloten, Switzerland
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Spektrum Flyers, an ice hockey team from Oslo, Norway
United States
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Philadelphia Flyers, a National Hockey League team from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Dayton Flyers, athletic teams of the University of Dayton, Ohio
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Fort Worth Flyers, a basketball team from Fort Worth, Texas
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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
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Panama City Fliers, a minor league baseball team based in Panama City, Florida
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Pensacola Ice Flyers, an ice hockey team from Pensacola, Florida
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Schaumburg Flyers, a baseball team from Schaumburg, Illinois
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Spokane Flyers (junior), an ice hockey team from Spokane, Washington
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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
*Waynflete Flyers, the mascot of
Waynflete School, Portland, Maine
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Franklin County High School (Kentucky), a Kentucky high school that uses "Flyers" and "Lady Flyers" as a mascot
Transportation
Automobiles
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Flyer (automobile)
Flyer or flier may refer to:
*An aviator, a person who flies an aircraft
*Flyer (pamphlet), a single-page leaflet
Music
* ''Flyer'' (album), by Nanci Griffith
*Flyer (band), a Croatian pop band
Sports
*Flyer, a position in cheerleading stunts ...
, manufactured by the Flyer Motor Car Company in Michigan, United States, from 1913 to 1914
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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
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Smith Flyer, manufactured by A.O. Smith Company in Milwaukee, United States, from 1915 until about 1919
*Thomas Flyer, manufactured by
Thomas Motor Company
Aviation
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Flyer Indústria Aeronáutica, a Brazilian manufacturer of ultralight aircraft.
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Flyer F600 NG
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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.
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''FLYER'' (magazine), a monthly UK aviation publication
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Abramovich Flyer, a biplane built by Vsevolod Abramovich in 1912
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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
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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
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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
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Wright Flyer, world's first powered aircraft, built and flown by the Wright Brothers in 1903
Ships
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''Flyer'' (yacht), yacht of Conny van Rietschoten with which he won the Whitbread Round the World Race
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''Flyer II'' (yacht), yacht of Conny van Rietschoten with which he won the Whitbread Round the World Race
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''Flyer'' (steamboat), a passenger ship which operated on Puget Sound from 1891 to 1930
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USNS ''Flyer'', a cargo ship launched in 1944
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USS ''Flier'', a submarine launched in 1943
Trains
Australia
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Newcastle Flyer, an express passenger service connecting Newcastle and Sydney from 1929 to 1988
New Zealand
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Kingston Flyer, a vintage steam service begun in 1982
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Kingston Flyer (train), an express passenger service operated between the 1890s and 1957
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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
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Century Flyer
The Century Flyer is a gauge train originally built as an amusement park ride. It is located on the grounds of the Conway Human Development Center, a residential facility that treats patients with developmental disabilities at 150 East Siebenmorg ...
, an historic narrow-gauge train
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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
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Heartland Flyer'', a passenger train between Fort Worth, Texas, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, begun in 1999
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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
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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
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New Flyer, a Canadian bus manufacturer
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Spondon Flyer, a bus service in England
Other uses
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Flier (fish) (''Centrarchus macropterus''), a sunfish native to the southern United States
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Flyer (wrestler), a Mexican professional wrestler
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Flier (surname) Flier or Flyer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Jaap Flier (born 1934), Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer
*Jeffrey Scott Flier (born 1948), American physician, endocrinologist, researcher and Dean of the Faculty of Medici ...
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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 ...
, an aero-robot
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Flyer (New-Gen), a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics
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American Flyer, a toy train and model railroad brand
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Memphis Flyer'', a free weekly alternative newspaper
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Singapore Flyer, a giant Ferris wheel
*Flyer, one of the two components of a
flying buttress
*Flyer, a U-shaped mechanism in a
spinning wheel, invented in the late 15th century
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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
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HTC Flyer, a tablet computer released by HTC
*Flyer, a female
kangaroo
See also
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