Aircraft
Aircraft noun - A vehicle that can fly.
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Synonyms for Aircraft
Flying machines and aircraft are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Flying machines" instead a noun "Aircraft".
Flying machines
Aircraft and flying machines are semantically related. You can use "Aircraft" instead a noun phrase "Flying machines".
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Actual aircraft in the early days of aviation, as well as many early unsuccessful attempts to build flying machines, may well fit here.
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If you play with the Martians however and you attack the island, it suddenly contains anti aircraft guns as well (since flying machines are the only Martian vehicles that can reach the island).
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In Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds, the counter to fast-moving Martian flying machines is theoretically the AA gun and its vehicular counterpart, the mobile anti-aircraft array.
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