flying-machines

The classical authorities tell us that he was only “doing a stunt”, but I prefer to think of him as the man who brought to light a serious constructional defect in the flying-machines of his day.

Of Icarus and Caution « dudegalea 2010

These light flying-machines were carried with the fleets, and also sent overland or by sea to the front with the men.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

He saw presently little figures sheathing swords come out from the houses and walk to the debris of the flying-machines the bomb had destroyed.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

For these small flying-machines, ineffectual for any large expedition or conclusive attack, were horribly convenient for guerilla warfare, rapidly and cheaply made, easily used, easily hidden.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

The flat Asiatic airships kept high above the Germans and behind them, and fired unanswered bullets into their gas-chambers and upon their flanks — the one-man flying-machines hovered and alighted like

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

It consisted of forty airships, carrying all together nearly four hundred one-man flying-machines upon their flanks, and for some time it flew slowly and at a minimum distance of perhaps a dozen miles from the Germans, eastward across their front.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

More and more of the Asiatic flying-machines came into the conflict.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

One Asiatic airship — it looked to Bert from below like three hundred yards of pavement — whirled back and circled two or three times over that great overthrow, and half a dozen crimson flying-machines danced for a moment like great midges in the sunlight before they swept on after their fellows.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

And at the same time the character of the war altered through the replacement of the huge gas-filled airships by flying-machines as the instruments of war.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

Then to their support came a second string of red flying-machines driving up from the east.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006