Flyer or flier may refer to:
*An
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 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
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
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 Wells ...
, 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
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
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
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), 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
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
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
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
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
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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
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, 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
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
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
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) (''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 the ...
, 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)
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, a toy train and model railroad brand
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Memphis Flyer'', 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
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
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 ...
See also
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