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And then there was the flying machine that brought Scholl up short: a British Airways supersonic Concorde, which went into commercial service in 1976 and was permanently mothballed in 2003.
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Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 19 Jan. 2025
Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, [and] two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human.
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Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images As the mystery grows around the drones flying over New Jersey, so do the calls from puzzled residents to authorities about the flying machines.
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Emma Bowman, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024
Despite the present panic over drones in New Jersey and elsewhere, the little flying machines do have value (like the New Year’s celebrations in Central and Prospect Parks) and New York City needs to rethink its rules about who can operate them and where.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 Dec. 2024
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First Known Use
1736, in the meaning defined above
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“Flying machine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flying%20machine. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
flying machine
noun
: aircraft
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