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Honestly I am surprised by some of the points. But after reading all of it, now I am wondering as an outsider, what the hell is a "flight" if there's basically no good abstraction for this mess? What does it mean when a new flight is created, or what does the existence of any single flight mean?

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Flight is a concept which is at least a body moving without support to an underlying surface. Everything else are human plugins added to help us exploit the concept in various circumstances. Any additional constraints on the concept are valid only in the circumstances they were invented for. Enumeration of the circumstances should take into account the participants of the communication context where the word "flight" is used.

It means what it needs to mean so everyone involved will know what it means in the moment

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