Talk:Airbending/@comment-24.130.80.181-20120525035627/@comment-4888161-20120526074647

Fire is not air. It is a chemical reaction. While it needs oxygen or an oxidizer to burn, it is not air dependent. It can burn without air so long as it has another source of oxygen.

Lightning is not air, it is electricity, or a current of moving electrons. Lightning is NOT air. Air is actually an insulator, so that is why lightning tends to strike the highest things. It takes the shortest path into the ground so it can travel through as little air as possible.

Superspeed is not a subskill, but a part of normal airbending. Same with flight, which there would be various ways to do with normal airbending.

Soundbending is a speculated sub ability, but we haven't seen enough to prove it can be used so specifically like that. It is very likely that it can be, but it is not 100% certain as we currently don't have enough evidence.