The first three years would be devoted to developing a light internal-combustion engine, and the remaining two years to making a flying machine.
To continue the report: "One day I was approached by three gentlemen who were interested in the gun, and they asked me if it would be possible for me to build a flying machine, how long it would take, and how much it would cost.
There are only two kinds of flying machine, the lighter than air and the heavier than air, of which two kinds the simplest types are the soap-bubble and the arrow.
Professor Langley held that in order to learn to fly, you must have a flying machine to begin with.
The wings of a flying machine, it has been said, are called planes, but they are not true planes.
I am the inventor of a flying machine, which, for thirty years, I have labored at and striven to bring to perfection.
Doubtless the arrow was a flying machine, a novelty to the ignorant Scythians.
A flying machine, says Professor Bell, in the Encyclopodia Britannica--(you will not question the authority of the Encyclopodia Britannica?
So you think a flying machine impossible, sir, and me, I presume, a fanatic?
The balloon is a mere lifting machine and is in no sense to be regarded as a flying machine.
Extensive inert surfaces indeed are contra-indicated in a flying machine, as they approximate it to the balloon, which, as has been shown, cannot maintain its position in the air if there are air currents.
The ship floats upon water and the balloon upon air; but the ship differs from the balloon, and the ship and the balloon differ from the flying creature and flying machine.
A sailing ship is supported by the water and requires merely to be propelled; a flying creature and a flying machine constructed on the living type require to be both supported and propelled.
It showed, indeed, although in miniature, that a flying machine could be built and driven through the air; and so this patient experimenter did not labour in vain.
If tire cement was good for fastening the hands on a stop watch, why should it not be good for fastening the sprockets on the propeller shaft of a flying machine?
But whether it be a rising current or something else, it is as well able to support a flying machine as a bird, if man once learns the art of utilizing it.
The three visitors came out to assist, and when Ben took his seat Dick suggested significantly that he had never had the pleasure of riding in a flying machine.
This man has invented a flying machine which he has arranged to show at Great Shropshire Floral Fete here on Monday.
Now the thing is no longer a flying machine but a balloon; treat it as a balloon.
Or to the shed where Sparhawk keeps his flying machine.
It is only about fifteen years since the Wright brothers built their first crude flying machine, and, not without some misgivings, made the first trial of their handiwork.
Unfortunately the early experimenters in aeronautics were not men who had had the long training in keen observation nor the groundwork of mechanical knowledge which would have fitted them for their task of devising a flying machine.
Not satisfied with what they had already accomplished, the brothers now turned their attention to constructing a motor suitable for use in a flying machine.
Of all the professions in the world, that of a flying machine man is the one where a cool head and quick judgment are the things most needed.
And it was not an amateur aviator like Percy Carberry who was opposed to them now, but one who had had long experience in the art of harnessing a flying machine to do his bidding.
Same here," echoed Frank, "you never know what will happen when a crowd is pushing all around you, every fellow eager to just say he had hold of a flying machine.
The propelling power of Node's flying machine lay in the arms and legs of the one who soared in it.
Then Alfred and Node would travel all over the world exhibiting the flying machine.
Alfred had even stolen the big fly brush, made of peacock feathers, to birdify Node's flying machine.
In these days when a man is seen flying a kite, people very naturally imagine him to be an aeronaut, studying the science for the purpose of improving or inventing a flying machine of some kind--for which there seems to be ample room.
The millionaire loved a flying machine as track-men love a swift and beautiful horse.
And you know, too,” Carl put in, “that we never could trust Jimmie alone in a flying machine!
It isn’t always the speed that counts in a flying machine,” smiled Havens.
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