1914, Victor_Appleton, Tom Swift And His Photo Telephone, ch 1,And folks laughed at Santos Dumont, at the Wrights, and at all the other fellows, who said they could take a heavier-than-air machine, and skim above the clouds like a bird.
Of, pertaining to, or using an aircraft which weighs more than the volume of air it displaces.
1952, "Milestones," Time, 10 Mar.,Died. John Thomas Moore, 65, who, on a windy day in December 1903, lent a hand putting a flying machine on a runway, was the last surviving witness to the Wright brothers' historic first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk.
