flying machine
noun
: an apparatus for navigating the air
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Silence fell over the crowd at Veterans Park on Saturday as Ashton Krepelka tightened his grip on the handlebars of his flying machine. 
Addison Lathers, Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2022 On the weekends, the crew has been constructing their flying machine inside a warehouse on the company's campus. Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022 The English Channel was shrouded in a cold and clammy fog; the small fabric-and-wood flying machine perched atop the Dover cliffs looked impossibly flimsy. Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 13 June 2022 One of the first things Perseverance did was deploy Ingenuity, a small robotic helicopter and the first such flying machine to take off on another planet. New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022 As a true inventor, Taylor also recently created a new flying machine called the ‘Sky’. Robert Reiss, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021 Apparitions appear: a mountain climber summiting an icy peak, an aviator manning a primitive flying machine, astronauts striding down a gangway. New York Times, 2 Feb. 2022 The montage serves as a reminder that airline passengers board flights and head toward family, work, vacations and back with a sense of security in the flying machine that convey them. Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 26 Jan. 2022 Failures of nerve happen when the facts are known and the challenge clear, but somehow an experiment risks yielding a result that seems outlandish—a flying machine, a rocket, factories the size of a pin. Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2021 See More
Addison Lathers, Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2022 On the weekends, the crew has been constructing their flying machine inside a warehouse on the company's campus. Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022 The English Channel was shrouded in a cold and clammy fog; the small fabric-and-wood flying machine perched atop the Dover cliffs looked impossibly flimsy. Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 13 June 2022 One of the first things Perseverance did was deploy Ingenuity, a small robotic helicopter and the first such flying machine to take off on another planet. New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022 As a true inventor, Taylor also recently created a new flying machine called the ‘Sky’. Robert Reiss, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021 Apparitions appear: a mountain climber summiting an icy peak, an aviator manning a primitive flying machine, astronauts striding down a gangway. New York Times, 2 Feb. 2022 The montage serves as a reminder that airline passengers board flights and head toward family, work, vacations and back with a sense of security in the flying machine that convey them. Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 26 Jan. 2022 Failures of nerve happen when the facts are known and the challenge clear, but somehow an experiment risks yielding a result that seems outlandish—a flying machine, a rocket, factories the size of a pin. Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1736, in the meaning defined above