as the crow flies

As the crow flies is an idiom for the shortest distance between two points.

"As the crow flies" or "in a beeline" is an idiom for the shortest distance between two points (on a map, disregarding the vagaries of intervening terrain); the geodesic distance.

As The Crow Flies is the third album by Jon Brooks, under the pseudonym of The Advisory Circle. It was preceded by the album Other Channels. The album was released on July 8, 2011 on the Ghost Box Music label. The CD sleeve notes and bonus digital booklet contains an introduction by professor Ronald Hutton, as well as a paragraph quoted from his book, The Stations of the Sun.