Flight Archery

The following is from Murray Elliot’s archer’s reference and Barry Groves website.
The purpose of flight archery is to shoot an arrow as far as possible. Distances are marked from
150 yards at intervals of 50 yards often to over 1000 yards. Typical equipment used may either
be standard target bows or specialised flight bows.
There are usually at least four ends of three arrows shot.
One of the first things any boy does with a piece of bent bamboo, a string and an ‘arrow' – which
is usually another piece of bamboo, thinner than the first and, with a bit of selection, straighter – is see how far he can shoot it. This is Flight archery in its simplest form.

Flight is the only form of archery which doesn't involve a target. Or it has the biggest target – the
Earth – depending on how you look at it.
It is ironic that this first type of archery for children has the fewest adherents among adults. Yet it
is Flight archery that is at the cutting edge. Without Flight, archery generally would be much
poorer. For Flight archery is the ‘Formula One' of archery. Like a Grand Prix car, dedicated Flight
bows are not built for the reliability needed for 150 arrow FITAs, week after week, year after year.
The dedicated Flight bow is built to shoot an arrow as far as possible – that's it! The Flight bow is
refined to its ultimate, stressed to the limit, strings with as few strands as possible for lightness,
and with arrows hand-made for aerodynamic perfection. It is in Flight archery that tuning and
technique are all-important. To win at Flight nothing less than perfection is good enough.