In a late change during the early development of the series (after the first three episodes had already been completed), the writers decided that only the Decepticons should be able to fly while the Autobots would be stuck on the ground. The idea at the time was that it wasn't common for children to fly on commercial airlines in the early 1980's, and so the concept of being up in the sky was foreign to most of them. According to the writers, this would help drive the idea of the Decepticons being the evil bad guys by not having any familiar ideals, principles, or actions that kids could relate to. And so, in the rare case of the Autobots ever needing to fly, they would have to be animated using jet packs to still keep the casual ability of flight away from them. Additionally, this led to most of the early airplane and flying animal toys being released as a Decepticon while the Autobots got most of the wheel based toy vehicles. The exception to this rule was with space travel, where the Autobots were assigned limited appearing characters like Omega Supreme, Cosmos, and Skyfire as members of their team to stay in line with the early story plot of the Decepticons not being able to return to their home planet of Cybertron.
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