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Leonardo da Vinci envisioned a flying machine long before airplanes took to the skies, illustrating humanity’s enduring desire to turn dreams into tools that reshape the physical world.
—Gerui Wang, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
From early renderings of flying machines to anatomical drawings of the circulatory system, da Vinci never stopped learning, even if the world wasn’t quite ready for his observations.
—Hunter Ingram For Variety, ARTnews.com, 21 Nov. 2024
There’s an engineer, eagerly critiquing da Vinci’s flying machines.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024
One worked out how to create different variations of flying machines, no bed needed, by binding together a crow, a rock, and an enemy that creates wind gusts.
—Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 2 Oct. 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 15 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
flying machine
noun
: aircraft
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