Flyer or flier may refer to:
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aviator, a person who flies an aircraft
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Flyer (pamphlet)
A flyer (or flier) is a form of paper advertisement intended for wide distribution and typically posted or distributed in a public place, handed out to individuals or sent through the mail. In the 2010s, flyers range from inexpensively photocop ...
, a single-page leaflet
Music
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''Flyer'' (album), by Nanci Griffith
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Flyer (band), a Croatian pop band
Sports
*Flyer, a position in
cheerleading stunts
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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
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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
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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
United States
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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 Well ...
, a National Hockey League team from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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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
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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
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Fullerton Flyers, a baseball team from Fullerton, California
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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 Fran ...
, a minor league baseball team based in Panama City, Florida
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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 I ...
, an ice hockey team from Pensacola, Florida
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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
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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
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Spokane Flyers (senior), an ice hockey team from Spokane, Washington
*Waynflete Flyers, the mascot 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
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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 ...
, a Kentucky high school that uses "Flyers" and "Lady Flyers" as a mascot
Transportation
Automobiles
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Flyer (automobile), manufactured by the Flyer Motor Car Company in Michigan, United States, from 1913 to 1914
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BYD Flyer, manufactured by BYD Auto in Shenzhen, China, since 2004
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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
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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.
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Flyer F600 NG, 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
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
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Fisher Flyer, a single-engined ultralight biplane built by Michael Fisher in 1980
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Kolb Flyer, a twin-engined ultralight monoplane produced in kit form by Kolb Aircraft from 1980 to 1982
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Pfitzner Flyer, a monoplane designed by Alexander Pfitzner in 1909
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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 ...
, 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
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
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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 passe ...
, a vintage steam service begun in 1982
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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. Originally, Kingston Flyer was a pass ...
, an express passenger service operated between the 1890s and 1957
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Taranaki Flyer'', a passenger service between New Plymouth and Wanganui which ended in 1959
United States
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Century Flyer, 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
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
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Valley Flyer'', a passenger service between Bakersfield and Oakland, in California, from 1939 to 1942
Buses
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Flyer (bus service), bus services to Leeds Bradford Airport
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New Flyer
New Flyer is a Canadian multinational bus manufacturer, specializing in the production of transit buses. New Flyer is owned by the NFI Group, a holding company for several bus manufacturers. New Flyer has several manufacturing facilities in Can ...
, a Canadian bus manufacturer
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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
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Flier (fish)
The flier (''Centrarchus macropterus'') is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a sunfish from the family Centrarchidae which is endemic to the southern United States of America. It is the only species in the monospecific genus ''Centrarchus ...
(''Centrarchus macropterus''), a sunfish native to the southern United States
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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 th ...
, a Mexican professional wrestler
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Flier (surname)
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Flier (BEAM), an aero-robot
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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 character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics
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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 Comp ...
, a toy train and model railroad brand
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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 ...
'', a free weekly alternative newspaper
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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
*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
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Fast Low-Ionization Emission Region (FLIER), a poorly understood structure in some planetary nebulae
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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
*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 ...
See also
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