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
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
The challenge for any new flying machine such as Eve or the HX50 is to win regulatory approval says Mr Twidell.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2024
Last year, that slot was occupied by the lean, mean flying machine “Plane,” starring Gerard Butler.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024
In the field the wounded flying machine bounced haplessly over the unmown grass for thirty yards.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
