Wingfoot

Wingfoot

Wingfoot may refer to:

* Wingfoot Air Express Crash, a Goodyear blimp that crashed in Chicago in 1919.
* Akron Wingfoots, a basketball team
* an athletic shoe
* Wingfoot Express, a jet-propelled car.
* Aragorn, a character from Lord of the Rings
* Wyatt Wingfoot a fictional Native American

Many of these uses took the image from the god Mercury or Hermes, who wore winged sandals known as Talaria.


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