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flying machine

noun as in early aircraft

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The flying machine zigged and zagged, dodging eagles and vultures.

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The Drone was a small flying machine with a special camera attached to its underside.

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Roz found the flying machine upside down, with its landing gear poking above the rows of leafy plants.

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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.

Gannon-Doak is Scotland's flying machine, the man-child who was supposed to scare the wits out of the Greeks with his speed and his daring, and electrify Hampden with his personality.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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