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	The music video for the song takes place on an airplane, parodying the movie '']''. Two airline mechanics (played by ] and ] from ]) smuggle and hide their narcotic known as "World Domination brand 'Erotic' Sleeping Powder"<ref>http://www.foofighters.com/faq.php?id=06.04#goto Foo Fighters FAQ. Accessed December 27, 2006</ref> in the coffee-maker. This ends up incapacitating everyone who drinks the coffee. The band, having avoided the coffee (choosing liquor instead), finds themselves forced to land the plane. For the video, each band member (], ] and ]) portrays himself as well as several other roles, including an FBI agent who arrests the two mechanics. Also, as in the music video for "]", a Foo Fighters song is played as ] in the beginning, this time with "]" from '']''. The premise of smuggling drugs in airplane coffee is nearly identical to an actual smuggling operation that was uncovered in 1997.<ref>{{cite news\| url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9908/25/airline.drug.sting.06/ \| work=CNN \| title=Smuggling sting nabs 55 from airline, contractor}}</ref>		The music video for the song takes place on an airplane, parodying the movie '']'', and by extension, the film ]. Two airline mechanics (played by ] and ] from ]) smuggle and hide their narcotic known as "World Domination brand 'Erotic' Sleeping Powder"<ref>http://www.foofighters.com/faq.php?id=06.04#goto Foo Fighters FAQ. Accessed December 27, 2006</ref> in the coffee-maker. This ends up incapacitating everyone who drinks the coffee. The band, having avoided the coffee (choosing liquor instead), in a homage to ]'s role in Airport 1975, finds themselves forced to land the plane. For the video, each band member (], ] and ]) portrays himself as well as several other roles, including an FBI agent who arrests the two mechanics. Also, as in the music video for "]", a Foo Fighters song is played as ] in the beginning, this time with "]" from '']''. The premise of smuggling drugs in airplane coffee is nearly identical to an actual smuggling operation that was uncovered in 1997.<ref>{{cite news\| url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9908/25/airline.drug.sting.06/ \| work=CNN \| title=Smuggling sting nabs 55 from airline, contractor}}</ref>

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For other uses, see Learning to fly (disambiguation).

"Learn to Fly"
Song

"Learn to Fly" is the first single from the Foo Fighters' third album There Is Nothing Left to Lose. It was released on two different singles in the UK in 1999. "Learn to Fly" is one of the band's most successful and recognized singles, including being their first Modern Rock #1 song on the Billboard charts, beating their single "This Is a Call"'s previous peak of #2. Reaching #19, it is also the band's second highest charting single on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as becoming their first Top 40 single, while being their highest charting on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart along with the 1996 hit "Big Me", reaching #13.

Music video

The music video for the song takes place on an airplane, parodying the movie Airplane!, and by extension, the film Airport 1975. Two airline mechanics (played by Jack Black and Kyle Gass from Tenacious D) smuggle and hide their narcotic known as "World Domination brand 'Erotic' Sleeping Powder" in the coffee-maker. This ends up incapacitating everyone who drinks the coffee. The band, having avoided the coffee (choosing liquor instead), in a homage to Karen Black's role in Airport 1975, finds themselves forced to land the plane. For the video, each band member (Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel and Taylor Hawkins) portrays himself as well as several other roles, including an FBI agent who arrests the two mechanics. Also, as in the music video for "Monkey Wrench", a Foo Fighters song is played as Muzak in the beginning, this time with "Everlong" from The Colour and the Shape. The premise of smuggling drugs in airplane coffee is nearly identical to an actual smuggling operation that was uncovered in 1997.

The video was filmed in London, England in a cabin crew training airplane. The video won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video.

Track listing

Disc 1

"Learn to Fly"
"Iron and Stone" (The Obsessed cover)
"Have a Cigar" (Pink Floyd cover)

Disc 2

"Learn to Fly"
"Make a Bet"
"Have a Cigar" (Pink Floyd cover)

Personnel

Dave Grohl - vocals, guitar
Taylor Hawkins - drums
Nate Mendel - bass

Chart positions

Chart (1999)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart	36
Canadian RPM Singles Chart	13
Canadian RPM Rock Chart	1
Dutch Top 40	32
Dutch Top 100 Singles Chart	72
Eurochart Hot 100 Singles	65
New Zealand Singles Chart	23
Swedish Singles Chart	52
UK Singles Chart	21
US Billboard Hot 100	19
US Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks	1
US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	2
US Billboard Adult Top 40	15

Preceded by"The Chemicals Between Us" by Bush	Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single November 6, 1999	Succeeded by"The Chemicals Between Us" by Bush
Preceded byEnemy by Days of the New	*Canadian RPM* Rock/Alternative 30 number-one single** November 15, 1999 – December 20, 1999 January 17, 2000	Succeeded by"Take a Picture" by Filter "Take a Picture" by Filter

References

RIAA Gold & Platinum Searchable Database - Foo Fighters singles. RIAA.com.
"Gold & Platinum Certification – January 2010". Canadian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 2011-02-22.
http://www.foofighters.com/faq.php?id=06.04#goto Foo Fighters FAQ. Accessed December 27, 2006
"Smuggling sting nabs 55 from airline, contractor". CNN.
^ Learn To Fly positions. australian-charts.com. Retrieved on December 01, 2012.
Dutch Top 40. "Foo Fighters Dutch top 40 Archive". www.top40.nl. Retrieved 28 February 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ billboard.com. "Learn To Fly Billboard Chart History". www.billboard.com. Retrieved 01 December 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

External links

"Learn to Fly" Official music video on YouTube

v t e Foo Fighters
Dave Grohl Nate Mendel Pat Smear Chris Shiflett Rami Jaffee Josh Freese William Goldsmith Franz Stahl Taylor Hawkins
Studio albums	Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape There Is Nothing Left to Lose One by One In Your Honor Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Wasting Light Sonic Highways Concrete and Gold Medicine at Midnight But Here We Are
EPs	Five Songs and a Cover Songs from the Laundry Room Saint Cecilia Foo Files
Live albums	Skin and Bones
Compilations	Greatest Hits Medium Rare The Essential Foo Fighters
Videos	Everywhere but Home Skin and Bones Live at Wembley Stadium
Singles	"This Is a Call" "I'll Stick Around" "For All the Cows" "Big Me" "Alone + Easy Target" "Monkey Wrench" "Everlong" "My Hero" "Walking After You" "Learn to Fly" "Stacked Actors" "Generator" "Breakout" "Next Year" "The One" "All My Life" "Times Like These" "Low" "Have It All" "Best of You" "DOA" "Resolve" "No Way Back"/"Cold Day in the Sun" "Miracle" "The Pretender" "Long Road to Ruin" "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)" "Let It Die" "Wheels" "Rope" "White Limo" "Walk" "Arlandria" "These Days" "Bridge Burning" "Something from Nothing" "The Feast and the Famine" "Congregation" "What Did I Do? / God as My Witness" "Outside" "Saint Cecilia" "Run" "The Sky Is a Neighborhood" "The Line" "Shame Shame" "No Son of Mine" "Waiting on a War" "Making a Fire" "Love Dies Young" "Rescued" "Under You" "The Glass"
Other songs	"Friend of a Friend" "Marigold"
Concert tours	Wasting Light Tour Sonic Highways World Tour Concrete and Gold Tour Everything or Nothing at All Tour
Associated acts	Nirvana Late! Tenacious D Sunny Day Real Estate Germs Scream Probot Killing Joke Queens of the Stone Age Viva Death Nine Inch Nails Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders The Fire Theft Jackson United Me First and the Gimme Gimmes No Use for a Name Them Crooked Vultures The Birds of Satan The Wallflowers
Films	Back and Forth Sonic Highways Studio 666
Related	Discography Songs Awards and nominations Members 24 Hours of Foo Roswell Records Hail Satin
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	==Music video==		==Music video==
	The music video for the song takes place on an airplane, parodying the movie '']''. Two airline mechanics (played by ] and ] from ]) smuggle and hide their narcotic known as "World Domination brand 'Erotic' Sleeping Powder"<ref>http://www.foofighters.com/faq.php?id=06.04#goto Foo Fighters FAQ. Accessed December 27, 2006</ref> in the coffee-maker. This ends up incapacitating everyone who drinks the coffee. The band, having avoided the coffee (choosing liquor instead), finds themselves forced to land the plane. For the video, each band member (], ] and ]) portrays himself as well as several other roles, including an FBI agent who arrests the two mechanics. Also, as in the music video for "]", a Foo Fighters song is played as ] in the beginning, this time with "]" from '']''. The premise of smuggling drugs in airplane coffee is nearly identical to an actual smuggling operation that was uncovered in 1997.<ref>{{cite news\| url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9908/25/airline.drug.sting.06/ \| work=CNN \| title=Smuggling sting nabs 55 from airline, contractor}}</ref>		The music video for the song takes place on an airplane, parodying the movie '']'', and by extension, the film ]. Two airline mechanics (played by ] and ] from ]) smuggle and hide their narcotic known as "World Domination brand 'Erotic' Sleeping Powder"<ref>http://www.foofighters.com/faq.php?id=06.04#goto Foo Fighters FAQ. Accessed December 27, 2006</ref> in the coffee-maker. This ends up incapacitating everyone who drinks the coffee. The band, having avoided the coffee (choosing liquor instead), in a homage to ]'s role in Airport 1975, finds themselves forced to land the plane. For the video, each band member (], ] and ]) portrays himself as well as several other roles, including an FBI agent who arrests the two mechanics. Also, as in the music video for "]", a Foo Fighters song is played as ] in the beginning, this time with "]" from '']''. The premise of smuggling drugs in airplane coffee is nearly identical to an actual smuggling operation that was uncovered in 1997.<ref>{{cite news\| url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9908/25/airline.drug.sting.06/ \| work=CNN \| title=Smuggling sting nabs 55 from airline, contractor}}</ref>

	The video was filmed in ], ] in a cabin crew training airplane. The video won the 2001 ].{{citation needed\|date=November 2011}}		The video was filmed in ], ] in a cabin crew training airplane. The video won the 2001 ].{{citation needed\|date=November 2011}}