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	Flying Saucerians
		Flying saucers are a central symbol of the new-age reality, but not the only symbol.
		Since flying saucers are not ordinary material devices they can not only travel in space but also through various levels of the spirit world, astral levels as they are called.
		The flying saucer gradually came to unite many different mysteries as the revelation progressively unfolded: mysterious happenings in the sky, the promise of a moral civilization, a life after death, and a paradise on earth, if men would only follow the message.
	www.tbuckner.com /FLYING.HTM (3828 words)

	List of early flying machines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Claims about what a flying machine is vary in countries and in books and encyclopedias.
		These and other controversial issues are discussed in first flying machine.
		In this list, various advancements are presented, including actual flying machines, prototypes, models, designs or important pieces of literature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Early_flying_machines (179 words)

	Early flying machines
		The goal is to examine the properties of flying machines, and to list the claims to allow a proper analyzation of all the early flying machines.
		Early attempts at flight are the subject of much debate, both for the often sketchy details of machines and people that have vanished away in time and as a matter of pride for some given group, usually a country.
		Early flying machines, such those that predated the development of practical photography are often doubted for lack of proof, and ancient machines are almost entirely dismissed for a lack of credibility.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/ea/early_flying_machines.html (1445 words)

	FLYING MACHINES
		The operator is in no way permanently fastened to his machine, and the machine and the operator simply rest upon the light platform-car, so that the operator is free to rise with the machine from the car whenever the required initial velocity is attained.
		Having constructed and equipped your machine, the next thing is to decide upon the method of controlling the various rudders and auxiliary planes by which the direction and equilibrium and ascending and descending of the machine are governed.
		The non-technical reason why the support of the machine becomes easier as the speed increases is that the sustaining power of the atmosphere increases with the resistance, and the speed with which the object is moving increases this resistance.
	www.corvalliscommunitypages.com /Americas/US/USNotOregon/flying_machines.htm (22261 words)

	:: NASA Quest > Aerospace :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Flying prone, he achieved warping by means of wires attached to a hip cradle.
		EARLY GLIDER was designed by Otto Lilienthal, who is seen here flying it over a brickyard on the outskirts of Berlin in 1894 Lilienthal was the first pilot of what would now be called a hang glider.
		The forward surface, which was the most unusual feature of the early Wright aircraft, had for the brothers the advantage that the pilot could see it, thereby gaining a measure of safety by being able to respond quickly if something went wrong with it in flight.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /aero/wright/background/origin.html (2371 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)

	HOW TO PUT ON A FLY-IN 101
		DATE OF FLY-IN The date of the fly-ins should be carefully studied by the chapter leadership in the fall or early winter of the previous year.
		One hazard found during a fly-in is that children and adults new to aviation are not aware of commonly used terms such as "CLEAR PROP".
		HINT: The day of the event, the phone number listed in the magazines and flyers as the point of contact should have an answering machine hooked to it announcing that the fly-in is "on" and to come on out.
	www.eaa983.org /templates/flyinguide.htm (2712 words)

	Greatest Inventions-- Airplane -- Fixed Wing Aircraft
		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.
		Early inventors made only partial progress, while later ones built on their work.
	www.edinformatics.com /inventions_inventors/airplane.htm (2382 words)

	Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı
		This flying machine consisted of a light frame covered with strong canvas and provided with two large oars or wings moving on a horizontal axis, and so arranged that the upstroke met with no resistance while the downstroke provided the lifting power.
		Swedenborg knew that the machine would not fly, but suggested it as a start and was confident that the problem would be solved.
		Many claims of flight are complicated by the fact that many early flights were done at such low altitude that they did not clear the ground effect and the complexities involved in the differences between unpowered and powered aircraft.
	www.osmanlimedeniyeti.com /wiki/Aviation_history_.html (5676 words)

	Aircraft
		Fixed-wing aircraft generally use an internal-combustion engine in the form of a piston engine (with a propeller) or a turbine engine (jet or turboprop), to provide thrust that moves the craft forward through the air.
		Exceptions are gliders which have no engines and gain their thrust, initially, from winches or tugs and then from gravity and thermal currents.
		The number of lift surfaces varied in the pre-1950 period, as biplanes (two wings) and triplanes (three wings) were numerous in the early days of aviation.
	www.cooldictionary.com /words/Aircraft.wikipedia (1785 words)

	Flight - Visual Flight Rules Aircraft Wright Brothers Early Flying Machines Control Deck Feather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Flying tree frogs use greatly enlarged webbed feet for a similar purpose, and there are flying lizards which employ their unusually wide, flattened rib-cages to the same end.
		Flying machines are aircraft, including aeroplanes, helicopters, airships and balloons, and spacecraft.
		The goal is to examine the properties of flying machines, and to list the claims to allow a proper analysis of all the early flying machines.
	www.a-zofholidays.com /a2z/flights/flight.html (8040 words)

	Hill Aerospace Museum - Flying Machines Over Zion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With the year 1919 winding down, Utah was about to end a decade of flight in which the flying machine had begun as a simple 38-horsepower Farman biplane flown by a Frenchman at the State Fairgrounds, and had ended with an Air Race that spanned the entire continental United States.
		The airplane’s use in Zion early in the decade had been for local aerial exhibitions, mostly involving the Curtiss and Wright companies, or some individual daredevil for hire, and always with the express purpose of drawing a crowd for profit.
		During this early period, 1910 to 1916, the flying machine was just a novelty to be enjoyed by spectators, with no real purpose or practical application yet developed.
	www.hill.af.mil /museum/history/fmoz11.htm (1549 words)

	ACS :: Can Breast Cancer Be Found Early?
		Most doctors feel that early detection tests for breast cancer save many thousands of lives each year, and that many more lives could be saved if even more women and their health care providers took advantage of these tests.
		CBE is a complement to mammograms and an opportunity for women and their doctor or nurse to discuss changes in their breasts, early detection testing, and factors in the woman’s history that might make her more likely to have breast cancer.
		A technician places the breast on the mammogram machine’s lower plate, which is made of metal and has a drawer to hold the x-ray film.
	www.cancer.org /docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_3x_can_breast_cancer_be_found_early_5.asp (4399 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Exceptions include gliders which have no engines and gain their thrust, initially, from winches or tugs and then from gravity and thermal currents.
		Other possibilities include the delta wing, where lift and horizontal control surfaces are often combined, and the flying wing, where there is no separate vertical control surface (e.g., the B-2 Spirit).
		The vast majority of flights flown around the world each day belong to the general aviation category, which covers a wide range of activities such as business trips, civilian flight training, recreational balloon flying, firefighting, medical transport (medevac) flights, and cargo transportation on freight aircraft, to name a few.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Aircraft (1963 words)

	Vimanas, Indian Flying Machines...
		These fall into two categories: (l) manmade craft that resemble airplanes and fly with the aid of birdlike wings, and (2) unstreamlined structures that fly in a mysterious manner and are generally not made by human beings.
		Other examples are military machines of the kind described in the Arthasastra of Kautilya, written in the 3rd century B.C. These include the sarvato-bhadra, a rotating wheel that hurls stones, the sara-yantra, an arrow-throwing machine, the udghatima, a machine that demolishes walls using iron bars, and many more.
		It was quite common for flying machines and yantras in general to be attributed to the Yavanas in Sanskrit texts.
	www.main.org /polycosmos/glxywest/vimanas.htm (8452 words)

	Flying the Airplane
		So a Boeing 747 pilot may not be able to fly his desired speed of Mach 0.86 and fly at Mach 0.84 instead if she is behind a Boeing 777.
		Humans can never beat a machine and so, if a pilot wishes to manually fly the ILS to hone his flying skills, he is restricted to fly to a minimum of 200 feet above ground level and a visibility of 550 meters.
		To fly an ILS, the flight director would guide the airplane to land on a correct profile and towards the centerline of the runway by means of ground signals.
	www.askcaptainlim.com /asflyingtheplane.htm (7070 words)

	George Cayley Summary
		He wanted to fly with the help of mechanics, and was convinced that it was only a matter of time before he would create a real flying machine.
		He discovered that birds twisted their wings to help them fly long distances, and envisioned that the same effect could be created in a fixed-wing, flying machine with the use of cambered wings.
		He is mainly remembered, however, for his flying machines, including the working, piloted glider that he designed and built.
	www.bookrags.com /George_Cayley (1869 words)

	ACS :: Breast Cancer: Early Detection
		The goal of screening examinations for early breast cancer detection is to find cancers before they start to cause symptoms.
		Early detection means using an approach that allows earlier diagnosis of breast cancer than otherwise might have occurred.
		If you are going to a facility for the first time, bring a list of the places, dates of mammograms, biopsies, or other breast treatments you have had before.
	www.cancer.org /docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_6x_Breast_Cancer_Early_Detection.asp?sitearea= (10182 words)

	ABC News: The Public Nature of Private Aviation
		Flying for the pure joy of it, in other words, tends to be primarily the province of North Americans (with Australia being a close second).
		One of the contributors to this cornucopia of private flying was World War II, which taught tens of thousands of military men and women to fly (yes, the women were relegated to the ferry command, but they were there, and they were good pilots).
		Type 2s, by contrast, view flying as merely an interesting challenge — much as a corporate golfer might view the game as an interesting but occasional means of spending time with clients or the boss.
	abcnews.go.com /Business/FlyingHigh/story?id=1251850 (940 words)

	All Shop's textiles : Antiques for My Lady
		Back in the early 1900's this lovely wool tablecloth/throw was hand loomed by the company that later became Pendleton Knits in Northern Indiana.
		It was especially made for a family in Southern Indiana.The jewel tone colors of green, red, touches of blue (so cleverly woven that you hardly see the blue), are predominant on one side while it reverses to a cream background with paisley designs being just outlined in red, blues, and greens.
		A lovely, lovely young lady of the late 30's or early 40's is embroidered in the center of this quilt.
	www.rubylane.com /shops/mylady/ilist?ss=textiles&db=mylady&mainsection=shop (2447 words)

	Pirates of the Burning Sea
		On the right you have the mission stage view, where it lists all the stages of the mission file we are currently editing in the order they player will experience them.
		These lists are used on the first mission in a sequence to set up variables for later on, marking that you are in the mission (so you can’t get it again), giving you items you need to have, and such like.
		The list is filtered based on each one’s requirements, such as career, faction, nationality, rank, or having completed previous missions, and the resulting few are presented to the player.
	www.flyinglab.com /pirates/logs.php?log_select=190 (2645 words)

	Accidents and incidents in aviation - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Despite this, accidents still occur, though statistically flying is nowadays an extremely safe form of transportation.
		Many early attempts at flight ended in failure when a design raised to a height for a launching would fail to generate enough lift and crash to the ground.
		Some other early attempts experienced rough landings, such as Richard Pearse who is generally accepted to have crash landed (survived) a motorized aircraft in some bushes, unable to gain altitude after launching from it from some height.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Accidents_and_incidents_in_aviation (905 words)

	Off to a flying start - Commonwealth Games - smh.com.au
		To be precise, a historic, No. 8 suburban tram, wings flapping, lights blinking, sparks flying, gliding in to land in the centre of the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
		So it was last night as the Commonwealth Games got off to a spectacular flying start, with an opening ceremony packed with pyrotechnics, dramatic music, dazzling colour and high-wire special effects that sought to boldly go higher, faster, further than ever before.
		There was an affectionate welcome and early 80th happy birthday greeting, sung by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, for the Queen, who first visited the city as a young bride more than 50 years ago.
	www.smh.com.au /news/commonwealth-games/off-to-a-flying-start/2006/03/15/1142098533630.html (857 words)

	Flying Magazine - Lilienthal and the Mysterious Book
		Their first successful powered flights on December 17, 1903, marked the culmination of several years of their own experiments with large kites and gliders and topped off years of effort by other men to unlock the secrets of flight.
		The sons of a bishop, the Wrights showed a knack for mechanical genius from boyhood, always interested in fascinating new machines and toys, like the small wooden “helicopter” stick toy they received from their father, Milton.
		By their early 20s, they were already veterans of the printing business and in 1892 opened a bicycle sales and repair shop, creating and selling their high quality Wright machines.
	www.flyingmag.com /article.asp?section_id=11&article_id=309&print_page=y (518 words)

	Pride, Progress, Pie in the Sky
		Most were celebrities flying toward their next commitment; some were businessmen.
		Safety led the list of corporate goals that United's early president, Pat Patterson, called his Rule of Five (safety, passenger comfort, dependability, honesty and sincerity).
		To view other articles related to flying including history, unusual flying machines, hot air balloons, skydiving, gliding, problems, airports, turbulence, pilots, crashes, the Paris Air Show, the future, blimps, space travel, solar sails and more, clicking the "Up" button below takes you to the Table of Contents for this section on Flight.
	flatrock.org.nz /topics/flying/extraordinary_service.htm (2831 words)

	Stop Flying Blind » Blog Archive » 1. Introduction. We’re very, very, very bad at predicting the ...
		We have the closest matter is the website machine translation, occasionally lets you dig but today is main good is smiles outside a useful fact from Chinese or the South Korean website.
		We’re not completely sure how emotions work in human beings, so putting them in machines may be a bit of a stretch for now.
		They’re flying blind because when you’re inside a vision, you can’t see what its limits are.
	www.mikemace.com /stopflyingblind/archives/8 (2869 words)

	Retro Thing: The Retro Thing 'Top Ten Retrocomputers List'
		These machines were cheap for a reason: The keyboard was printed on a large flat membrane, much like you'd see on a microwave oven.
		The machine was based on Intel's early 8008 microprocessor and caused quite a stir in the hobbyist world.
		The machines are made by the original Fischer-Freitas Company, formed by a couple of IMSAI employees who bought the rights to the system in the late 1970s.
	www.retrothing.com /2006/03/the_retrothing_.html (1583 words)

	Secret Life Of Machines Episode Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To illustrate the inner workings of household appliances there are entertaining little asides to some of their imaginative automata and props that they have built over the years for commercial displays and televison work.
		Machines: Three of Tim's famous collecting boxes: The head scratching curator the rubber-necked guard and the doctor that writes out illegible prescriptions.
		Additionally, there is a listing on the back of the broadsheets I received for a book by Tim Hunkin called "Almost Everything There is to Know" alternately listed as being published by Pyramid and by Hamlyn (neither of which I've ever heard of).
	www.islandnet.com /~ianc/med/slom.html (2529 words)

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