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 # Flight
 
-Flight is an extensible micro-framework for PHP.
+Flight is a fast, simple, and extensible framework for PHP.
 It allows you to quickly build RESTful web applications with minimal effort:
 
     require 'flight/Flight.php';
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 ## Extending
 
-Flight is extensible. You can map your own methods, register your own classes, or even override existing classes and methods.
+Flight is an extensible framework. Flight's features are individual components that can extended or overridden.
+You can map your own methods, register your own classes, or even override existing classes and methods.
 
 ### Mapping Methods