flying circus
Acrobatic aviation show
A flying circus is a team of stunt pilots performing aerial acrobatics at public exhibitions, popular in the early twentieth century when aviation was still a novelty.
Barnstormers would travel from town to town, setting up temporary shows.
The term gained cultural resonance from Monty Python's Flying Circus, the British comedy troupe, lending it absurdist associations: The whole conference turned into a flying circus.
Main circus tent
- acrobatAgile circus performer
- trapezeSuspended acrobatic bar
- tightropeTaut cord for walking
- clownComedic performer in makeup
juggler · ringmaster · aerialist · contortionist · fire breather · unicycle · stilts · performers
Touring rural areas performing
- biplanesAircraft with two wing tiers
- aerobaticsSpectacular aircraft maneuvers
- loop-the-loopCircular vertical maneuver
- stuntsDangerous performed feats
formation · skywriting · daredevil · pilots · Red Baron · vintage · propellers · parachuting
Montgomery, shortened
- BBCBritish public broadcaster
- sketchHasty informal drawing
- satireMockery exposing vice
- surrealDreamlike and strange
John Cleese · Eric Idle · Michael Palin · Terry Jones · absurd · parody · Spanish Inquisition · Holy Grail
big top
Main circus tent
clown · juggler · ringmaster · aerialist · contortionist · fire breather · unicycle · stilts · performers · caravan
barnstorming
Touring rural areas performing
- biplanesAircraft with two wing tiers
- aerobaticsSpectacular aircraft maneuvers
- loop-the-loopCircular vertical maneuver
stunts · formation · skywriting · daredevil · pilots · Red Baron · vintage · propellers · parachuting · crowd
Monty
Montgomery, shortened
John Cleese · Eric Idle · Michael Palin · Terry Jones · surreal · absurd · parody · Spanish Inquisition · Holy Grail · Life of Brian
- aviationaircraft, airports, airplane, airplanes, jets
- Aviation HistoryWright Brothers, Wright brothers, Kitty Hawk, aviation pioneers, aviation pioneer
- 1920s aviationbarnstorming, biplanes, airmail, Lindbergh, Spirit of St. Louis
- WWI Aviationair combat, aerial combat, dogfights, fighter pilots, ace pilots
- Aviation Storiesace pilots, aerial combat
- circus types
flying circusinfantry regiment
Organized group of soldiers
ground forces · foot soldiers · garrison · entrenchment · artillery battery
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