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A magic carpet, also called a flying carpet, is a legendary carpet and common trope in fantasy fiction. It is typically used as a form of transportation and can quickly or instantaneously carry its users to their destination.
In literature
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is a mythological flying (or "teleporting") rug.
Magic carpet may also refer to:
Film, video, music and print media
* ''The Magic Carpet'', 1930s pulp magazine originally called ''
Oriental Stories
''Oriental Stories,'' later retitled ''The Magic Carpet Magazine'', was an American pulp magazine published by Popular Fiction Co., and edited by Farnsworth Wright. It was launched in 1930 under the title ''Oriental Stories'' as a companion to P ...
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IMAX Magic Carpet, large format film system in 1990
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Magic Carpet (''Aladdin''), silent character featured in 1992 Disney film ''Aladdin'' and its franchise
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''Magic Carpet'' (video game), 1994 first person shooter game from Bullfrog Productions
* Early form of "Extreme Gear" (type of racing vehicle) in the 2006 video game, ''
Sonic Riders
is a 2006 racing video game for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox in which the player controls characters from the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' series on hoverboards. In the game's 16 tracks, the player competes against characters—either control ...
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"Magic Carpet" (song), 1963 song by English performer Billy J. Kramer
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Magic Carpet (band)
Magic Carpet was a pioneering British psychedelic folk band of musicians that first appeared in the early 1970s.
The band members were Clem Alford, sitar; Alisha Sufit, voice and guitar; Jim Moyes, guitar; and Keshav Sathe, Indian tabla per ...
, English psychedelic folk band during 1970s
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''The Magic Carpet'' (film), a 1951 American adventure film
Military operations
* Magic Carpet, slang term for
Malta convoy
The Malta convoys were Allied supply convoys of the Second World War. The convoys took place during the Siege of Malta in the Mediterranean Theatre. Malta was a base from which British sea and air forces could attack ships carrying supplies ...
supply runs from Alexandria to Malta by British submarines during the Siege of Malta during World War II
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Operation Magic Carpet
Operation Magic Carpet was the post-World War II operation by the War Shipping Administration to repatriate over eight million American military personnel from the European, Pacific, and Asian theaters. Hundreds of Liberty ships, Victory ships ...
, post-World War II U.S. Navy military operation
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Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen)
Operation Magic Carpet is a widely known nickname for Operation On Wings of Eagles ( he, כנפי נשרים, ''Kanfei Nesharim''), an operation between June 1949 and September 1950 that brought 49,000 Yemenite Jews to the new state of Isra ...
, joint effort by UK and U.S. to airlift Yemeni Jews to Israel 1949–50
Transportation
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Magic carpet (ski lift)
A surface lift is a type of cable transport for snow sports in which skiers and snowboarders remain on the ground as they are pulled uphill. While they were once prevalent, they have been overtaken in popularity by higher-capacity and higher-co ...
, type of surface lift found at ski areas
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Cessna Experimental Magic Carpet, light aircraft research project
See also
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Magic Carpet Ride (disambiguation)
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