Abstract Since the development of flight early in the 20th century when flying captured the collective imagination as a technological project, its potential has been firmly harnessed by patriarchy. This project engages artistic and theoretical propositions that remove flight from monopolisation by militarist domination and commercial profit, to reimagine flight as a protective planetary capacity. By problematising the geo-politics of flight in relation to personal histories and feminist thought, this research develops new artistic and theoretical visions of flight. It centres auto-ethnography as a method that enables me to connect my family history with my practice, where I reach and touch transgenerational traumas by metaphorically and physically connecting myself to them through threads of intricate and intimate handmaking. Reflective of these ideas, this project reimagines flight through materiality of textiles, fibre-based installations and performative activations. In doing so, it suggests rerouting the trajectory of flight towards more intimate, embodied realms, where the liberatory qualities of flight are reclaimed through the domestic territory that reimagines flight and its technologies as an intrinsic part of the planetary eco-system that needs to be cared for, and not the frontier to be conquered. I argue that dreamworlds of flight could be channelled, through the softening, haptic qualities of thinking-through-hand-making, into empowering women to reimagine their role in relation to technologies, where instead of the automation of labour, visions of a posthuman feminist futures can be built around eco-communality and post-technological solidarity.