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4. Next, we can consider various ways to launch the elephant – by spinning it while holding it by the trunk, or by running along an inclined chute of a predetermined length, and calculate the acceleration as the elephant accelerates to the desired speed.
5. From the acceleration and mass, we calculate the force that will act on the trunk during acceleration.

You know, it's not that simple. It is known that Bhima's favorite trick was to grab the elephant by the trunk and spin it until it reached a speed 40 times greater than the first cosmic velocity.
But the elephant wasn't just a bystander in this situation; it also likes to grab with its trunk, spin, and throw the opponent away. The picture with the lizard is good evidence of this.
I think that in reality, Bhima and the elephant could circle each other for hours, like two wrestlers at the Olympics, making feints with their hands and trunks, and whoever gets caught first loses.

I am concerned about the elephant's aerodynamic characteristics, the combination of aerodynamic coefficient dependencies, as well as their derivatives and distributed loads from characteristic parameters that determine flight modes, the configuration of the object, and its orientation relative to the chosen coordinate system.

I really lack basic knowledge of physics; the values obtained are extremely approximate, and I suspect that the elephant won't fly anywhere.