flying machine
Example Sentences
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Yet in some ways, Pivotal’s technology is even more audacious, in that it puts a human pilot—potentially a squirmy, Earth-hugging rookie like me—squarely into the control loop of a flying machine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
And reams on new Australian athletics sprint sensation, the 17-year-old flying machine, Gout Gout.
From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025
In the Ethiopian Air crash, this angle of attack reading jumped from about 12° to 74.5° in less than a second, which would clearly be physically impossible for a flying machine weighing over 100,000 pounds.
From Salon • Jan. 26, 2024
Last year, that slot was occupied by the lean, mean flying machine “Plane,” starring Gerard Butler.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024
His enemies, mocking him, put it about that he was working on a flying machine, and indeed he admitted that the thought had crossed his mind.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
