aflight

The elderly Pollyana of the infant aviation had photographs of their glider of 1902 aflight at Kitty Hawk.

1930, John R. McMahon, chapter 8, in The Wright Brothers, Boston: Little, Brown, page 150

[…] the Vestibule was full of birds and the birds were all aflight.

2020, Susanna Clarke, Piranesi, New York: Bloomsbury, Part 2, p. 39

In the distance the billabong was white with egrets and aflight with ducks;

1967, Elspeth Huxley, chapter 15, in Their Shining Eldorado: A Journey through Australia,, New York: William Morrow, page 311

[I] saw a stream of animals, hooved, padded, clawed and dashing, splashing through the ponds for Various Aquatic Birds, setting the night aflight—

1968, John Irving, Setting Free the Bears, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1970, Part 3, p. 362

The five now aflight from Massacre Canyon would have posses beating the bush for them.

1964, Allan Vaughan Elston, chapter 12, in The Landseekers,, Philadelphia: Lippincott, page 121

1547, uncredited translator, A Simple, and Religious Consultation by Hermann of Wied, London: John Day, “Of the crosse, and aflictions,” […] when the crosse, and afliction cometh vpon them, their mynde is aflight, it considereth not that the thynges, whiche it suffereth, be the scourges of Goddes wrath,

1817, anonymous (attributed to James Athearn Jones), Hardenbrass and Haverill, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Volume 2, Chapter 1, p. 7, “ […] I dare not leave her without locking the door; for the poor thing is quite aflight, and talks about nothing but guns and swords, and bloody knives, and rapes, and other weapons.”