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  Flying-Machine - U.S. Patent No. 544,816   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In a flying machine the combination with a supporting frame, of a wing adapted to be folded together and having its ribs diverging from a common support, and suitably hinged thereto a string connecting the outer points of the ribs, and continuous fabric attached to a series of ribs, substantially as set forth.
In a flying machine, the combination with a supporting frame, of a wing having its ribs diverging from a common support, fabric stretched over the ribs and wires, as i, extending from the ribs downward to the supporting frame for the purpose of adjusting thereby the tension of the ribs, substantially as set forth.
In a flying machine, a supporting frame for the wings comprising a hoop h, rods extending from it for supporting the operator and a tail and a rudder, and pockets as d for receiving the ends of the ribs of the wings, substantially as set forth.
www.todayinsci.com /Events/Patent/FlyingMachine544816.htm   (972 words)

  
 Warcraft III - Humans -> Units -> Flying Machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mechanical flying machine flown by a Dwarven pilot.
Flying Machines have two main purposes: to scout, and to attack air units.
Flying Machines also act as detectors for invisible units.
www.battle.net /war3/human/units/flyingmachine.shtml   (194 words)

  
 FLYING MACHINES BEFORE THE WRIGHTS- Frequently Asked Questions
First, their machine was heavier-than-air, not a gas, hot-air or smoke balloon; second, their machine had a means of controlling all three axes of flight, roll, pitch and yaw; third, their machine was powered, not a glider; and fourth, The Wright Flyer was able to sustain itself in flight for a reasonable distance.
The Henson Aerial Steam Carriage, the model Flying Machines of John Stringfellow, the Avitor Hermes, Jr.
Mozhaiski's monoplane, the bat-like machines of Clement Ader and the enormous Test-Rig of Hiram Maxim were some of the Flying Machines which utilized steam engines.
www.flyingmachines.org /fmfaq.html   (868 words)

  
 PowerPedia:Tesla's Flying Machine - PESWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Tesla's Flying Machine represents the culmination of Tesla's life long research and is the demonstration that his Dynamic Theory of Gravity is correct.
This machine first appears similar to the modern day lifters propulsion system, but some propose that Tesla's device differes because it is comprised of both the high voltage "carrier exchange blocking" frequencies and high voltage direct current brush "propellant".
Tesla's Flying Machine seem to be related to devices electrokinetics and electrogravitics research.
peswiki.com /index.php/Tesla's_Flying_Machine   (969 words)

  
 Woodworking eTool: Machine Hazards > Flying Chips/Material
Operator training should include hazards associated with the machine, how the safeguards protect the worker from these hazards, under what circumstances the guard may be removed (usually just for maintenance), and what to do if the guard is damaged or not functioning properly.
Employees should be able to demonstrate their ability to run the machine with all safety precautions and mechanisms in place.
Ensure that: (1) the operator and machine are equipped with the safety accessories suitable for the hazards of the job, (2) the machine and safety equipment are in proper working condition, and (3) the machine operator is properly trained.
www.osha.gov /SLTC/etools/woodworking/flyingchips.html   (756 words)

  
 Nikola Tesla's Flying Machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Such a machine, sustained and propelled *entirely by reaction*, is shown on one of the pages of my lectures, and is supposed to be controlled either mechanically, or by wireless energy.
It is quite clear that Tesla invented some sort of flying machine, and that it is based on technology entirely different from that of the airplane.
A machine with these characteristics would be expected to perform in the way my friends described in their sightings.
www.swansontec.com /sTesla.htm   (433 words)

  
 Clement Ader's Eole early Flying Machine
The machine was mounted on a three wheeled landing rear and had a wingspan of an incredible 52 feet 6 inches.
The wings were arranged to fold, as on modern naval machines used from aircraft carriers, but there were no controlling surfaces, and Ader himself mentioned 'insufficient stability' and 'the necessity for further study'.
Later attempts by Adler to build a more sophisticated flying machine for the French military failed, though Adler later was to claim he'd made flights with it as high as 1,000 feet.
www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Eole-Flyingmachine/info/info.htm   (1014 words)

  
 Gustave Whitehead Early Flying Machine -1899
The body of the machine was constructed of pine, spruce, and bamboo, reinforced with Shelby steel tubing and piano wires.
Early flying machines were tricky to handle and an unpiloted test flight would almost certainly have resulted in a crash.
His goal was to fly, not to be recorded as the first to fly, thus keeping track of times, lengths and heights or making sure there were records on photograph were not the priority of his work.
fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Whitehead21-Flyingmachine/info/info.php   (3041 words)

  
 Gnomish Flying Machine - WoWWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Created using aeronautic advancement from the Dwarven Flying Machine, the new Gnomish Flying Machine is a more updated version and soon replaced the Dwarven Flying Machine and older Dwarven Gyrocopter, as the main air unit for the alliance.
Though the Flying Machine is a reliable device, it is fragile and not particularly strong in air-to-ground attacks.
The first tiny flying machines were built by the gnomes of Khaz Modan, who proved their worth to the alliance by using their helicopters to scout far behind enemy lines.
www.wowwiki.com /index.php?title=Gnomish_Flying_Machine&printable=yes   (444 words)

  
 First flying machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pilâtre de Rozier was the first to fly a balloon, and he was also the victim of the first fatal aviation accident.
Flying squirrels, for instance, can't sustain level flight, and may be doing little more than falling, yet what they achieve is certainly useful, since it is part of their natural adaptation for survival.
For flying machines that use aerofoils, the method of getting the air to move is used by some to classify the invention.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_flying_machine   (3312 words)

  
 Flying Machine : Branding
At Flying Machine we have a melding of experienced creatives across all brand platforms who can go from concept to completion in any medium, whether it be print, motion, or web.
Flying Machine combined symbols and icons that interact within a contemporary graphical environment, and bring to life the cutting edge of Asian influences in digital art.
Acknowledging that the animation’s audience comprises of creative professionals who are interested in the animation’s message rather than its design, Flying Machine used simple imagery of top global designers, icons and maps, and minimal and sharp coloring to create a symbolic and flat solution.
www.flyingmachine.tv /designcreative.htm   (520 words)

  
 CD Baby: FLYING MACHINE: Broken Earth
Flying Machine is the alias for our communitative response to what our eyes have beheld, our ears have heard and our hands have touched.
Flying Machine is comprised of three fellows who share this dream.
The official release date for Flying Machine's debut "Broken Earth" was June 23, 2006.
cdbaby.com /cd/flyingmachine   (373 words)

  
 Eric Shackle's eBook - 1844 steam-powered flying machine
It is stated in the prospectus that the patentee has determined the capabilities of his machine by actual experiment; if so, he is, at all events, in the field before Mr.
Henson, and we doubt not he is prepared to enter into such a speculation of the practicability of his scheme.
Phillips's wonderful steam-powered flying machine will, at least metaphorically, have flown back from Sydney to London with a speed even its inventor would never have dreamed of.
www.bdb.co.za /shackle/articles/flying_machine.htm   (555 words)

  
 Warcraft II Strategy: Units   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Although they cannot attack, Flying Machine and Goblin Zeppelins are a very important part of the Orc and Human Army.
Flying Machines can be used to see what the enemy is up to safely out of range of their Towers and Archers.
Flying Machines can be used to escort Battleships and Destroyers to protect them from Submarines.
www.battle.net /war2/units/fz.shtml   (405 words)

  
 Richard Pearse's Early Flying Machine - information -
Yet he was compelled to work mostly in secret in order to avoid those who opposed him on religious grounds, and others who claimed that he was a lunatic in his attempts to build a flying machine.
However it was some fifty years later that investigators were alerted to Pearse's flying activities by the discovery of a roughly constructed 'utility' aeroplane, his third, which never flew but which contained remarkably innovative features, which was found hidden in his work shed after he had died.
There are accounts of a smaller machine preceding the better known flights of 1903 followed by a larger circular aircraft, another one of which little is known about, but which was built after he had moved to a very quiet secluded spot at a place called Milton.
www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Pearse-FlyingMachine/info/info.htm   (1696 words)

  
 Flying-machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is one of the many machines the Martians bring with them when they invade Earth, along with fighting-machines, handling-machines, and digging machines.
The appearance of the machine has only so far been depicted once onscreen in the Pendragon Pictures's film, H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, where it makes an appearance after the battle with the HMS Thunder Child, which is later recounted from the perspective of the artilleryman.
In the pilot episode of the War of the Worlds TV series, a sequel to the film, these same machines are seen but the "legs" are not present and are given more of a look of taking flight, but still possess the speed and movement of their film counterparts.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Flying-machine   (607 words)

  
 World Mysteries - Strange Artifacts, Ancient Flying Machines
Reyna said that on board these machines, which were called "Astras" by the text, the ancient Indians could have sent a detachment of men onto any planet, according to the document, which is thought to be thousands of years old.
According to ancient Indian texts, the people had flying machines which were called "Vimanas." The ancient Indian epic describes a Vimana as a double-deck, circular aircraft with portholes and a dome, much as we would imagine a flying saucer.
Atlanteans used their flying machines, "Vailixi," a similar type of aircraft, to literally try and subjugate the world, it would seem, if Indian texts are to be believed.
www.world-mysteries.com /sar_7.htm   (6141 words)

  
 Flying Needle Machine Embroidery tutorials, lessons & software
After teaching various sewing, quilting and craft classes over a number of years, I became interested in working with machine embroidery in 1995.
One of my main interests in machine embroidery is having the ability to create large designs.
The first embroidery machine I had sported a 100 by 100 mm (four-inch) hoop, and at the time there weren't any embroidery machines with larger fields.
www.flyingneedle.ca /about_fln.php   (433 words)

  
 Flying Machine Pillow - Shopping.com
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www.shopping.com /xGS-Flying_Machine_Pillow   (167 words)

  
 Broom Straw Air-Ship Flying Machine Kite
If my readers are not content with primitive flying machines like the Luna Kite, a Flying Machine that can lift a man, and yet this powerful engine will be built on the same principle as the broom-straw air-ship here described:
I use five inches only because the air-ship or flying machine which I built was made with five inches; the measure of each side of each triangle, and as this airship sailed well, I feel safe in giving the same dimensions to the reader.
Of course a little paste would make this more secure, especially if the lower ends of the straws, reaching down on the cover sail, were split and spread fan-shape on the paper, then covered with paste and a paper patch, like the patch shown at B in Fig.
www.inquiry.net /outdoor/spring/kites/flying_machine.htm   (1254 words)

  
 Leonardo Da Vinci and His Flying Machines (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A huge metamorphosis in Leonardo's approach to flying machines and flying occurred as he went from the theory of flight to actually attempting flight.
In the glider designed by him, the flier's position is conceived in such a way as to allow him to balance himself by adequately moving the lower part of his body.
Other than a few bruises and a wrecked machine, nothing was broken, although as it turned out, my dad wasn't nearly as proud of me as intended.
www.angelfire.com.cob-web.org:8888 /electronic/awakening101/leonardo.html   (756 words)

  
 Flying machine by LEONARDO da Vinci
Next to the car, the flying machine was one of mankind's great dreams and it is, therefore, not surprising that the inventive Leonardo should have devoted himself to this problem as well.
The machine illustrated here was meant to be powered by the muscle power of a man standing upright.
If built, the machine would have been so heavy that it would have been completely unsuitable for flight.
gallery.euroweb.hu /html/l/leonardo/12engine/3flying1.html   (148 words)

  
 The Old Flying Machine Company
With exceptional backgrounds in military and aerobatics flying, the company’s group of pilots strive to display the aircraft in the manner which emulates as closely as possible the roles for which they were originally designed.
It is estimated that the aircraft are seen "live" by over five million people a year in Europe alone, and as far a field as Norway, Poland, Italy and even New Zealand.
Along with air displays, OFMC specialises in film work and advertising, flying in the majority of European based aviation productions since 1987.
www.ofmc.co.uk   (264 words)

  
 The First Flying Machine in Healdsburg
Two days later, just before twilight on a Saturday evening, a large welcoming crowd (some of whom had been waiting since early morning) heard the distant motors of the Jenny biplane, and soon Lieutenant Fred Young's "government flying machine" was in view.
At the height of wartime fever in 1918 Fred enlisted and was sent to San Diego to be trained as an aviator, graduating in the 95th percentile of his class.
His flying was apparently so good that when he was commissioned as a lieutenant, he was stationed at Marsh field in Riverside and made an aviation instructor himself.
www.sonic.net /~janosko/ourhealdsburg.com/history/flyingmachine.htm   (1001 words)

  
 The Flying Machine
Hanley flies in a rickety observation plane with a wise-cracking pilot (Keenan Wynn).
In "The Flying Machine," the bulk of the action follows Hanley as makes the plane air-worthy.
To do this he: makes a hardware fix, repairs the torn wing, obtains gasoline, and removes a stone wall blocking the runway — all this without attracting the attention of the German's camped at the base of the hill.
www.jodavidsmeyer.com /combat/episodes/Flying_Machine_The.html   (267 words)

  
 Gnomish Flying Machine - WoWWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Many crash sites can be found around Azeroth were these machines have succumbed to their delicate builds.
Dwarven tinkers improved on the technology first by creating Dwarven Gyrocopters and then later the Dwarven Flying Machines.
Even though the video has been quite obviously edited simply to make it look like the gnome is really flying the machine rather than using real gameplay video, the possibility of the flying machine as the gnome racial flying mount exists.
www.wowwiki.com /index.php?title=Gnomish_Flying_Machine&printable=yes   (444 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Personal flying machine up for bid on eBay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Two overhead ducted fans lift the gas-powered machine, and a standing operator steers with a joystick in each hand.
The winner of the auction must sign a contract promising not to fly the prototype, to use it for exhibition only.
Moshier expects to sell the aluminum and titanium machine to a museum or aviation enthusiast.
www.usatoday.com /tech/news/techinnovations/2003-01-07-flying-machine_x.htm   (355 words)

  
 The Wright Brothers | Inventing a Flying Machine
Between 1899 and 1905, the Wright brothers conducted a program of aeronautical research and experimentation that led to the first successful powered airplane in 1903 and a refined, practical flying machine two years later.
The genius of Wilbur and Orville lay not only in the singular act of getting a flying machine into the air, but also in the approach they evolved and employed to create the technology of flight.
Their method of evaluating data gathered by testing an aircraft in flight, then refining the design based on those results, remains an essential tool in aerospace research and development.
www.nasm.si.edu /wrightbrothers/fly/index.cfm   (123 words)

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