Flight

Flight was the quality of machines and vehicles which could get about in the air without touching the ground. It was shared by helicopters, (PROSE: Kursaal) aeroplanes (TV: The Magician's Apprentice) and, on occasions, the Doctor's TARDIS. (TV: The Parting of the Ways, The Runaway Bride)
For an organic being, the equivalent ability, both being described with the verb "to fly", was called flying (TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio, City of Death) or levitation. (COMIC: Levitation)
The word "polyot" meant "flight" in Russian, hence the name of the Polyot-one rocket-ship. (PROSE: The Shoreditch Incident)
The early Dalek War Machine model of casing was incapable of flight. (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks) As this severely limited the early Dalek Empire's efforts to traverse rough terrain on other planets, the Daleks initially compensated for this weakness with hoverbouts before they managed to invent casings with the capacity for independent flight. Human historians credited the creation of flight capable Daleks to Davros, believing that he had bestowed the ability to his Imperial Daleks via anti-grav pods, allowing them an advantage in their civil war against the grounded Renegade Daleks. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe) Though the Dalek Prime Strategist operated a War Machine casing, (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks) his had been fitted with a repulsor, allowing for flight. (WC: The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy, AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy) Models of casings operated in the Last Great Time War and afterwards were capable of flight. (TV: Dalek, Doomsday, Journey's End, The Big Bang)
Most factions of Cybermen were unable to fly, not even the highly advanced Cyberiad models. (TV: Nightmare in Silver) The 3W Cybermen created by Missy, externally identical to their Cyberiad counterparts, did possess flight capabilities. (TV: Death in Heaven) The Cybermen of the Mondasian colony ship were also capable of flight, even among the early CyberMondan models, and could reach speeds sufficient to counter time dilation. (TV: The Doctor Falls) The Cyber-Warriors of the Cyber-Empire were also capable of flight, (WC: 14683 UNIT Field Log) as were the Empire's Cyberdrones. (TV: Ascension of the Cybermen)
The Mechanoids were capable of flight. (WC: Planet of the Mechonoids)
King Hydroflax's robotic body was capable of flight. (TV: The Husbands of River Song)
Shortly following the London UFO crash in 2006, Rachel posted on the website Doctor Who? to ask if any of the aliens were single as she broke up with her boyfriend Robbie last week and she felt it would be a good opportunity to get back at him, imagining his face if he saw her fly off with an alien. She suggested that going to the local cinema in a spaceship would be a bit more impressive than being driven around in Robbie's dad's Mazda. (PROSE: Alien landing confirmed)
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