We've been waiting for a real flying elephant ever since Disney released the movie Dumbo in 1941. Unfortunately, the following image, purportedly showing a baby elephant hovering off the ground ...

As for the ride, it got off to a slow start. When Disneyland opened July 17, 1955, on 160 acres of Anaheim orange groves, the Flying Elephant ride — with its 700-pound Dumbo-shaped fiberglass ...

Four decades ago, the Indian Air Force awed the crowd at an airshow with a flying elephant. And no, it wasn't Dumbo, the big floppy-eared cute baby proboscidean, but the pride of the Indian air ...