flight vs formation

flight and formation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
flight	Yes	No	Yes	No
formation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, formation is a hypernym of flight; that is, formation is a word with a broader meaning than flight:

flight (noun)	formation (noun)
an instance of traveling by air	the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
the act of escaping physically	the act of forming or establishing something
a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports	creation by mental activity
a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next	a particular spatial arrangement
passing above and beyond ordinary bounds	an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit
an air force unit smaller than a squadron	(geology) the geological features of the earth
a formation of aircraft in flight	natural process that causes something to form
a flock of flying birds
the path followed by an object moving through space