1. Moving upward or along at a considerable height
   "some highflying fighter pilot fired a cannon shell into it" 
2. Extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions
   "they did not understand what had happened at the once highflying company"

See also: ascending, unrestrained

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