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 # Flight
 
 Flight is an extensible micro-framework for PHP.
+It allows you to quickly build RESTful web applications with minimal effort:
 
-## Example
+    require 'flight/Flight.php';
 
-    include 'flight/Flight.php';
+    Flight::route('/', function(){
+        echo 'hello world!';
+    });
+
+    Flight::start();
+
+## Installation
+
+1. Download and extract the Flight framework files to your web directory.
+
+2. Configure your webserver:
+
+For **Apache**, edit your _.htaccess_ file with the following:
+
+    RewriteEngine On
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
+    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
+
+For **Nginx**, add the following to your _server_ declaration:
+
+    server {
+        location / {
+            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
+        }
+    }
+
+3. Create your _index.php_ file.
+
+First include the framework.
+
+    require 'flight/Flight.php';
+
+Then define a route and assign a function to handle the request.
 
     Flight::route('/', function(){
         echo 'hello world!';
     });
 
+Finally, start the framework.
+
     Flight::start();
+
+## Requirements
+
+Flight requires PHP 5.3 or later.
+
+## License
+
+Flight licensed under the [MIT](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php) license.