Wiktionary
n. 1 (context military aviation obsolete English) A WWI German fighter wing. 2 (context archaic English) A barnstorming troop.
Wikipedia
A Flying circus is a barnstorming troop (a flying exhibition team).
Flying circus or Flying Circus may also refer to:
- The Flying Circus (band), an Australian country rock/pop band (1968–74)
- The Flying Circus (Canada), a short lived Canadian folk rock band (1967–1968)
- Cobham's Flying Circus, an English flying circus (barnstorming group) started by Alan Cobham in 1932
- Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television sketch comedy originally broadcast 1969–1974
- Flying Circus, an American World War II air corps led by Joe Foss
Usage examples of "flying circus".
Then, early in the summer, Sir Alan Cobham came to Southampton with his flying circus, National Aviation Day, he called it.
That he was, in short, nothing but a bystander, a hick, just like the people who gawked up at him at the flying circus.
We've had our fun, we've made a flying circus run with Phobos and given nightmares to children and adults all over Earth.
Rick had met her shortly after Pop had taken the flying circus to Sacramento in search of spectators with a bit of extra wartime scrip in their pockets.
Roy had left Pop Hunter's flying circus for that circus of global madness, and it wasn't something Rick liked to think about.
He was wearing his old flying circus outfit of orange and white trimmed with black, and his silken scarf.