Ballistics is the field of mechanics concerned with the launching, flight behaviour and impact effects of projectiles, especially ranged weapon munitions such as bullets, unguided bombs, rockets or the like; the science or art of designing and accelerating projectiles so as to achieve a desired performance.
Gaetano Marzagaglia, Del calcolo balistico, 1748
Baseball throws can exceed 100 mph
Catapult 1 Mercato San Severino
USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside, 1984.
Flight or flying is the process by which an object moves through a space without contacting any planetary surface, either within an atmosphere or through the vacuum of outer space. This can be achieved by generating aerodynamic lift associated with gliding or propulsive thrust, aerostatically using buoyancy, or by ballistic movement.
Natural flight by a brown pelican
Human-engineered flight: a Royal Jordanian Airlines Boeing 787
An airship flies because the upward force, from air displacement, is equal to or greater than the force of gravity
Female mallard duck