Dragonfly (disambiguation)
Appearance
Look up dragonfly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
A dragonfly is a flying insect of the order Odonata.
Dragonfly or DragonFly may also refer to:
Aircraft
[edit]- Boeing X-50 Dragonfly, an unmanned aerial surveillance vehicle designed by the U.S. military
- Cessna A-37 Dragonfly, a US attack aircraft
- Castiglioni Dragon Fly 333 (Dragon Fly 333), an Italian helicopter
- DF Helicopters DF334 (Dragon Fly 334), an Italian helicopter
- De Havilland Dragonfly, a British aircraft
- Dornier Do 12 Libelle III (Dragonfly III), a German flying boat
- Dragonfly (G.I. Joe), a fictional make of helicopter in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline
- Flylight Dragonfly, a British ultralight trike design
- FlyTech Dragonfly, a remote-controlled flying toy ornithopter
- Glasflügel Libelle, a glider, German for dragonfly
- Moyes Dragonfly, an Australian ultralight aircraft
- Prestwick Dragonfly MPA Mk 1, a 1970s United Kingdom human-powered aircraft
- Sikorsky H-5, a US helicopter sometimes called Dragonfly
- Westland Dragonfly, the UK version of the Sikorsky H-5
- Viking Dragonfly, an experimental equal-area canard airplane
Spacecraft
[edit]- Dragon 2 DragonFly, a prototype reusable launch vehicle by SpaceX
- Dragonfly (Titan space probe), a planned NASA rotorcraft and lander for a mission to Titan
- Project Dragonfly (space study), a conceptual design study for a laser-propelled interstellar probe
Computing
[edit]- DragonFly BSD, an operating system
- Opera Dragonfly, a web developer tool integrated in the Opera browser
- Dragonfly (search engine), a prototype
Film and television
[edit]- Dragonfly (1976 film) or One Summer Love, a romantic drama starring Beau Bridges and Susan Sarandon
- The Man from Hong Kong (US title The Dragon Flies), a 1975 action film
- Dragonfly (2001 film), by Marius Holst
- Dragonfly (2002 film), directed by Tom Shadyac
- Dragonflies (film), a 2022 Spanish drama film
Literature
[edit]- Dragonfly (Durbin novel), a 1999 novel by Frederic S. Durbin
- Dragonfly (Koontz novel), a 1975 novel by Dean Koontz
- Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir, a book by Bryan Burrough
- "Dragonfly", a short story in Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fictional characters
[edit]- Dragonfly (AC Comics), a superheroine
- Dragonfly (Marvel Comics), a supervillainess
Music
[edit]- Dragonfly (band), from Croatia
- Dragonfly, a female singer featured on Bob Sinclar's 2012 song "Rock the Boat"
Albums
[edit]- Dragonfly (Ego Likeness album)
- Dragonfly (Jimmy Giuffre album)
- Dragonfly (Kasey Chambers album), 2017
- Dragonfly (Masami Okui album)
- Dragonfly (Strawbs album), also the title song
- Dragonfly (Ziggy Marley album), also the title song
- Dragon Fly (album), by Jefferson Starship
Songs
[edit]- "Dragonfly" (Fleetwood Mac song)
- "Dragonfly" (Hitomi Shimatani song)
- "Dragonfly", by a-ha from Lifelines
- "Dragonfly", by Trey Anastasio from Bar 17
- "Dragonfly", by Blondie from The Hunter
- "Dragonfly", by Cherona from Sound of Cherona
- "Dragonfly", by Clutch from The Elephant Riders
- "Dragonfly", by Edguy from Tinnitus Sanctus
- "Dragonfly", by Mahogany Rush from Mahogany Rush IV
- "Dragonfly", by Yngwie Malmsteen from Fire and Ice
- "Dragonfly", by The Nolans from Altogether
- "Dragonfly", by Pentangle from Open The Door
- "Dragonfly", by Shaman's Harvest from Shine
- "Dragonfly", by Red House Painters from Red House Painters (Rollercoaster)
- "Dragonfly", by SMiLE.dk from Future Girls
- "Dragonfly", by Caligula's Horse from Bloom
Other uses
[edit]- Dragonfly (chess variant), a chess variant invented by Christian Freeling
- Dragonfly (company), a South Korean video game developer
- Dragonfly Creek, a stream in the Presidio of San Francisco, California, U.S.
- Dragonfly Telephoto Array, a telescope array that uses a combination of telephoto lenses
- Dragonfly Trimarans, a line of trimarans built in Denmark
- Pilotwings (video game), a 1990 Super Nintendo Entertainment System game, known as Dragonfly during development
- SS Dragonfly (1883–1889), a British cargo steamship
- The Dragonfly, a short ballet by Anna Pavlova
See also
[edit]- Bromo-DragonFLY, a psychoactive drug
- Dragon Flyz, an American animated TV series
- DragonflyTV, an American educational children's series