All articles starting with F

Flair Airlines

Flair Airlines is a Canadian low-cost airline headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, founded as a charter operator in 2005 and repositioned in 2017 as an ultra-low-cost carrier.

Flair bartending, also called flairtending or flair, is bartending with semi-acrobatic tricks performed while making drinks. Split into working flair (service-safe moves) and exhibition flair (choreographed competition routines); traced to Jerry Thomas and popularized by TGI Friday's and the 1988 film Cocktail.

Flak division

A Flak division (Flak-Division) was a division-level command staff of the German Luftwaffe's antiaircraft artillery in World War II, directing flak regiments in static air defense or mobile support of field armies.

Flak jacket

The flak jacket, also called a flak vest, is a sleeveless vest of ballistic fabric or plates protecting the torso against fragmentation from artillery, mortars, mines, and grenades.

Flak tower

A flak tower (Flakturm) is a massive concrete anti-aircraft platform and air-raid shelter built in Berlin, Hamburg, and Vienna under the Nazi regime between 1940 and 1944.

Flake (chocolate bar)

Cadbury Flake is a British chocolate bar made by Cadbury from thinly folded milk chocolate with a crumbly texture, first made in 1920 at the Bournville factory.

Flaked

Flaked is a 2016-2017 Netflix comedy-drama co-created by and starring Will Arnett as Chip, a recovering alcoholic guru in Venice, California, with David Sullivan and Ruth Kearney; 14 episodes over two seasons, canceled, 35% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Flakey (robot)

Flakey was an autonomous mobile robot developed at SRI International in Menlo Park, California, in the mid-1980s as the successor to Shakey, known for its fuzzy-logic navigation controller.

Flakpanzer Gepard

The Flakpanzer Gepard, formally Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer Gepard, is a West German self-propelled anti-aircraft gun with twin 35 mm cannons on the Leopard 1 chassis, serving from 1976 to 2010.

Flaky test

A flaky test is a software test that passes on some runs and fails on others on the same code, with no change to the test or program.

Flămânda Offensive

The Flămânda Offensive, or Flămânda Maneuver, was a Romanian military operation fought in 1916. Led by General Alexandru Averescu, its failure left Romania in a precarious strategic position.

Flamanville nuclear power plant

The Flamanville nuclear power plant is an EDF nuclear station in Normandy, France, with two reactors from 1985 and 1986 plus the EPR Flamanville 3, connected to the grid in 2024.

Flambé

Flambé (flamber) is the culinary technique of igniting alcohol added to a hot pan, burning off raw ethanol while caramelizing flavors. Requires 40%+ ABV spirits; classic in Crêpes Suzette, Bananas Foster, Cherries Jubilee; studies show most alcohol loss comes from evaporation, not the flame.

Flame

A flame is a self-sustaining combustion zone that spreads through a fuel-oxidizer mixture at subsonic speeds, usually emitting light and heat, and classified as premixed or diffusion.

Flame atomic absorption spectroscopy

Flame atomic absorption spectroscopy (FAAS) is a robust, inexpensive analytical technique that measures element concentrations in a flame, covering more than 60 elements including sodium, calcium, zinc, and iron.

Flame atomic emission spectroscopy

Flame atomic emission spectroscopy (F-AES), also called flame photometry, is an analytical technique that measures metal concentrations by nebulizing a sample into a flame and measuring emitted light.

Flame ionization detection

Flame ionization detection (FID) is a gas chromatography method that burns organic compounds in a hydrogen-air flame and measures the ions formed; developed in 1957, it became the most widely used gas chromatography detector.

Oct 3, 2026

Flame of My Love (わが恋は燃えぬ)

Flame of My Love (わが恋は燃えぬ, Waga Koi wa Moenu) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1949 Shochiku drama, third of his women's liberation trilogy, starring Kinuyo Tanaka as emancipation pioneer Hideko Fukuda; released 15 February 1949, 84 minutes, black and white.

Flame of Recca (烈火の炎)

Flame of Recca (烈火の炎, Rekka no Honō) is Nobuyuki Anzai's 1995–2002 Weekly Shōnen Sunday ninja battle manga in 33 volumes, with a 42-episode 1997 Studio Pierrot anime, about flame-wielding Recca Hanabishi protecting the healer Yanagi Sakoshita.

Flame retardant

A flame retardant, also called flame resistant or flameproofing, is a chemical applied to products to prevent or slow fires; many persist in the body and raise health concerns.

Flame spraying

Flame spraying is a thermal spray coating process that melts wire or powder feedstock in an oxygen-fuel flame and propels it onto a surface as a coating.

Flame synthesis

Flame synthesis is a fabrication method using combustion flames to convert vaporized or liquid precursors into nanoparticles, coatings, and other inorganic solids, including carbon black and fumed silica.

Flame test

A flame test is a simple qualitative chemistry test that identifies metal elements or ions in a sample from the characteristic color they give a flame.

Flame-bladed sword

A flame-bladed sword, called a flammard or flamberge, is a sword with a wavy blade, used on Landsknecht two-handers and rapiers in the 16th to 18th centuries.

Flameholding

Flameholding is the stabilization of a combustion flame in a gas stream faster than the flame's own speed, achieved with recirculation zones from bluff bodies, swirlers, or wall cavities.

Flameless ration heater

The flameless ration heater, also known as the MRE heater, is a water-activated chemical heater included with military Meals, Ready-to-Eat since 1993 to heat food without fire.

Flamelet generated manifold

The flamelet generated manifold (FGM) method is a combustion simulation technique that builds a low-dimensional manifold from one-dimensional flamelets, proposed by J.A. van Oijen and L.P.H. de Goey in 2000.

Oct 22, 2026

Flamenca

Flamenca is an anonymous 13th-century Old Occitan romance of about 8,095 lines about a wife imprisoned by her jealous husband and rescued by a knight.