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* Many small insects such as bees fly this way, by spinning their wings around in a circle instead of flapping them up and down like birds do. The spinning generates a small wind that provides them lift.

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* Many small insects such as bees fly this way, by spinning their wings around in a circle (though unlike a bacterial flagellum, they aren't freely rotating) instead of flapping them up and down like birds do. The spinning generates a small wind that provides them lift. This is actually where the common myth that a bee's wings are too small to support its body comes from-- if bees flapped their wings up and down like birds instead of spinning them, they wouldn't be able to fly.
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* DJ Catnip from "WesternAnimation/GabbysDollhouse" often uses his legs to propel himself. Apparently all elastic kitties can do it because his cousin DJ Comet often does it too.
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* In the fanfic ''Fanfic/TailsOfTheOldRepublic'', a crossover[=/=]FusionFic between ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' and the videogame ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', Tails the fox has two tails like in the games and other media he regularly features in, and he can [[{{Flight}} fly]] with them, [[BewareMyStingerTail fight]] with them, and even [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe shield]] himself with them. In here, he has two basic flight modes: a general-purpose "helicopter mode" that has great versatility and a top speed of about 200 MPH, and a much faster and energy-intensive "turbofan mode" (similar to a jet engine) that can propel him up to 600 MPH or higher.

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* In the fanfic ''Fanfic/TailsOfTheOldRepublic'', a crossover[=/=]FusionFic between ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' and the videogame ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', Tails the fox has two tails like in the games and other media he regularly features in, and he can [[{{Flight}} fly]] with them, [[BewareMyStingerTail fight]] with them, and even [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe shield]] himself with them. In here, he has two basic flight modes: a general-purpose "helicopter mode" that has great versatility and a top speed of about 200 MPH, and a much faster and energy-intensive "turbofan mode" (similar to a jet engine) that can propel him up to 600 MPH or higher.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RazzberryJazzberryJam'': The Alien Castanets can somehow fly by [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rjj08.png looking upwards, opening their mouths 180 degrees and spinning]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/AThousandAndOneAmericas'': Near the end of the twenty-fourth episode, Lon shows a Nazca priest about how airplanes work (since those didn't exist yet during the pre-Columbian era in RealLife) by flapping his long ears to fly near the ceiling of the temple where they are. He even expends his front paws sideways to further similate the shape of the airplanes. Hilariously, due to his distraction he clashes against a wall.
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* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug6'' has an Invader alien called the Smasher, it resembles a crab-like thing that spins its legs like a helicopter to fly before inflating itself to smash down on you.

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* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug6'' ''VideoGame/MetalSlug 6'' has an Invader alien called the Smasher, it resembles a crab-like thing that spins its legs like a helicopter to fly before inflating itself to smash down on you.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Fishgun}}'', where all your enemies are anthropomorphic fruits, have sentient flying cherries who use their stalks as organic rotors to fly around.
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* Funnily enough, [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Flying_Buizel.png at least one Buizel somewhat copies Tails' flight method]] in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, complete with identical aerial posture and helicopter-tails.

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* Funnily enough, [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Flying_Buizel.png at least one Buizel somewhat copies Tails' flight method]] in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', complete with identical aerial posture and helicopter-tails.
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* ''ComicStrip/TheWackyAdventuresOfPedro'' has one storyline in which an overdose of PowerUpFood causes Pedro's ears to stretch and rotate like helicopter blades.
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* ''Toys/StarMonsters'': The petals on Oray's head look like a propeller. Oray ''tries'' to use them to fly, to no avail.
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* Funnily enough, [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Flying_Buizel.png at least one Buizel actually does copy Tails' flight method]] in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, complete with identical aerial posture and helicopter-tails.

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* Funnily enough, [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Flying_Buizel.png at least one Buizel actually does copy somewhat copies Tails' flight method]] in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, complete with identical aerial posture and helicopter-tails.



** An aquatic Pokémon named Buizel, partly based on Tails. It doesn't fly, however, but uses its tails as a propeller in water. Though it can create a stream of water to "fly" through when using Aqua Jet. This also applies to its evolved form, Floatzel. Barraskewda, from Sword and Shield, is based on a torpedo and also has a propellor-like tail.

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** An aquatic Pokémon named Buizel, partly based on Tails.Buizel. It doesn't fly, however, but uses its tails as a propeller in water. Though it can create a stream of water to "fly" through when using Aqua Jet. This also applies to its evolved form, Floatzel. Barraskewda, from Sword and Shield, is based on a torpedo and also has a propellor-like tail.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Hooty can fly in his "Porta-Hooty" form by stretching and angling his neck and whirling his head around. He can carry at least one person with him.

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