aflight

adjective4

1. •
   Flying.

   • Then, like a rocket set aflight, / She sprang, and streaked it for the light! — 1874
2. •
   Fleeing.

   • Like shepherdless sheep from wolves aflight — 1915
3. •
   Covered or filled (with something flying).

   • curved attics aflight with / angels — 1965
4. •
   (no longer used) Showing distress, anxiety or other strong emotion.

   • […] when the crosse, and afliction cometh vpon them, their mynde is aflight, it considereth not that the thynges, whiche it suffereth, be the scourges of Goddes wrath, — 1547