Please help to translate phrase "the flying octopus" correctly


Could anyone give me a correct translation both in transcription and in
hieroglyphs, please? Google translate gave me "tobu tako" couple of weeks ago,
but now it offers "Hikō tako" only, so I'm kinda confused if Google was ever
correct at all...

Imagine a real octopus floating in the sky. How would you call him in
Japanese? :)

Thank you for your time beforehand!




To fly is generally translated as 空{そら}(を)飛{と}ぶ (sora wo tobu).  
This is because 飛ぶ can mean a variety of other things than the English "fly".

This can be seen most hilariously in the Japanese translation of the movie
title for "Up!":

> 「カールじいさんの空飛ぶ家」(Kaaru Jii-san no sora tobu ie)

Or literally "Grandpa Carl's Flying House"

So I would translate "flying octopus" as 空飛ぶタコ (sora tobu tako) if it's a
proper noun and 空を飛ぶタコ (sora wo tobu tako) if you're talking about generic
flying octopodes.

As an aside the translation "Hikō Tako" google gave you was using the kango
(chinese word) for "to fly", 飛行.

