dragonfly A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata. About 3,000 extant species of dragonflies are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threat ...

is a flying insect of the order Odonata. Dragonfly or DragonFly may also refer to:

Aircraft

* 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 *

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, 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

* Dragon 2 ''DragonFly'', a prototype reusable spacecraft 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

DragonFly BSD DragonFly BSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system forked from FreeBSD 4.8. Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early 1990s and FreeBSD developer between 1994 and 2003, began working on DragonFly BSD in ...

, an operating system * Opera Dragonfly, a web developer tool integrated in the Opera browser * Dragonfly (search engine), a prototype * Dragonfly+, an InfiniBand network topology; for example see National Computational Infrastructure

Film and television

* ''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

* ''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

Dragonfly (AC Comics) Dragonfly is a fictional comic book superheroine. Created by Rik Levins, she debuted in ''Americomics'' #4 (October 1983) and starred in her own self-titled series. Publication history After a one-page advertising insert that appeared in ''Amer ...

, a superheroine * Dragonfly (Marvel Comics), a supervillainess * Dragonfly, main protagonist from

Superhero Movie ''Superhero Movie'' is a 2008 American superhero parody film written and directed by Craig Mazin, produced by Robert K. Weiss and David Zucker, and starring Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Kevin Hart, Brent Spiner, Jeffrey Ta ...

Music

* Dragonfly (band), from Croatia * Dragonfly, a female singer featured on Bob Sinclar's 2012 song " Rock the Boat"

Albums

* ''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

* "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 ''The Elephant Riders'' is the third full-length album by the band Clutch, released April 14, 1998, on Columbia Records, the only album Clutch made for the label. Recording and release It was produced by Jack Douglas (whose other credits inc ...

'' * "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

* 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

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DragonFLY A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata. About 3,000 extant species of dragonflies are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threat ...

, a serotonin receptor agonist and possible psychedelic drug