The Board

If fly lines can fly then why can’t we cast unlimited distances?

Especially if we remove the leader that prevents the line from accelerating to sonic speeds and creating near infinite lift?

Air Drag

Merlin

Lift?

I reject the premise.

I don’t think fly lines can fly. You’ve provided the evidence of their inability to fly in the question.

But I’m more than willing to be entertained by the answers of others.

Cheers, Graeme

And gravity

Merlin

When making sense,

—-The flyline might have some artistic value to the air but, there are a number of variations on the expression of freewill; your’re right though if a flyline was 50-yards in length then it would only casts 150’ or, be named the fifty yard line

A flyline matrix probably isn’t for everything and to remove flytying from the equation and “leader building!’

Lastly flylines must be coiled in place before they’re useful for anything i.e. tactics, welds and spices…

Wax on; wax off

There are several senses of the word flight, and the one connected to beverage and food tastings is derived from the sense of "a group of similar beings or objects flying through the air together," which was incubated in the nest of Old English flyht—itself related to flēogan, the Old English verb meaning "to fly through the air."

Although the modern English verb fly can mean "to move in or pass through the air" and also "to run away" (a meaning developed from the swiftness of flying creatures and objects), etymologically, the noun flight referring to the act of fleeing on foot is unrelated to the one in the sky; rather, it is from the Old English verb flēon, of the same meaning.

All of this is mostly fluitying

This thread reminds me of a quote that seems somewhat arguably pertinent: From Douglas Adams.

There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Pick a nice day, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] suggests, and try it.The first part is easy. All it requires is simply the ability to throw yourself forward with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind that it's going to hurt.That is, it's going to hurt if you fail to miss the ground. Most people fail to miss the ground, and if they are really trying properly, the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard.Clearly, it is the second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties. One problem is that you have to miss the ground accidentally. It's no good deliberately intending to miss the ground because you won't. You have to have your attention suddenly distracted by something else when you're halfway there, so that you are no longer thinking about falling, or about the ground, or about how much it's going to hurt if you fail to miss it.

Sincerely
Phil