flying machine

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A machine designed for flight, especially an early experimental type of aircraft.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A contrivance designed to enable its user to fly.
• noun A machine designed to float in and propel itself through the air.
• noun Remarkably successful results have been attained both with dirigible balloons and with “heavier-than-air” machines. See air-ship, and aëroplane.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun obsolete aircraft (from the early days of flight)