In the present chapter attention is directed to an entirely different class of flying machines--the steerable balloons.
It is so with agricultural and other practical inventions and applies particularly to flying machines.
The vast uninhabited but productive regions of this globe will be populated from overcrowded and impoverished communities, because of the extraordinary cheap, safe, and rapid travel by flying machines.
Right here it might be well to explain that the word "plane" applied to flying machinesof modern construction is in reality a misnomer.
Various Forms of Flying Machines Helicopters, Ornithopters and Aeroplanes-- Monoplanes, Biplanes and Triplanes.
Before the war the principal firms employed by the Admiralty in the manufacture of flying machines were: for seaplanes, Messrs.
They then wrote to the postmaster of Kitty Hawk, who testified that the sand-hills of that place were round and soft, well fitted for boys playing with flying machines.
The horses will have to get used to flying machines, just as they had to get used to autos," was Sam's comment.
So far during the fall, talk of football had filled the air, but now all became flying and flying machines.
By and by flying machines will be as common as autos," remarked Dick.
The history of flying machines, short as it is, furnishes many examples of one striking fact: That area has but little to do with sustaining an aeroplane when once in flight.
Builders of flying machines, for several years, sought to eliminate the very thing which gives energy to a horizontally-movable body, namely, momentum.
The boys turned to north and south in their machines and, sailing low, scrutinized the dim country in the hope of discovering some level spot where the flying machines could be brought to the ground with safety.
I suppose," he said, "you believe in flying machines.
I believe that the advance of flying machines will be so rapid that within the next decade they will be used with as much ease and safety as any other means of present locomotion.
The mails were generally carried in canvas bags by men on horseback; and this method of transportation was known as the "express" as a horse and his rider could go much more rapidly than even the best "flying machines.
Fifteen years afterward, the price of conveyance between New York and Philadelphia on one of these "flying machines" was forty shillings in gold or silver for each passenger, and as much for each hundred and fifty pounds of baggage.
These stagecoaches were so much swifter than anything else of the kind ever known in the State, that they were called "flying machines.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flying machines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
