Heavenly flight to the capital of Turkey (6)
I believe the answer is:
planet
'capital of turkey' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'heavenly flight to the' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'plane' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for planet that I've seen before include "Sun's orbiter" , "Venus, for example" , "Eg, a ruby" , "Eg, Mars, Venus" , "body in orbit" .)