Flying is to be able to operate in the air and to make your way thanks to the wind. Birds and certain insects are the only two species that can fly. Men cannot fly, but have always tried to compensate for this incapacity by inventing machines or making imitated wings as to realize this dream.

Indeed, from the midst of time -mythology had already allude to that wish to fly- men have wanted to fly by any means. Icarus's legend tells how he would have built wings with real feathers and wax in order to escape Minos by the air, for neither lands or seas were safe. Yet, too exhilarating with his capacity of flying, he went so close from the sun that his wings began to melt and he eventually fell into the sea, which killed him.

However, Greek mythology wasn't so wrong for today, a suit very carefully prepared was invented and allows great extreme sports professionals to jump from a plane or a cliff and fly for several minutes amid birds. This sport is called “windsuit”.

Other sports -less risky- among parachuting, paragliding, hang-gliding, or microlighting, give us the opportunity to feel as if we were flying. Of course, flying by plane is also a great experience to make, since traveling by air isn't neutral. Besides, some people are very afraid to take a flight, even though plane crashes are very rare compared to car crashes. Flights enabled men to travel very long distances in a very short time. Going around the world take about 40 hours today, that is to say less than two days!