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Or ''cool'', necessarily. While usually these craft will be treated as impressive feats of engineering—as the title implies—in some settings a primitive-looking flying machine will be [[Played for Laughs]] (perhaps as an aeronautical version of [[The Alleged Car]]). Actual use of the term "''Flying Machine''" usually suggests humour.
[[Truth in Television|Actual]] aircraft in the early days of aviation, as well as many early unsuccessful attempts to build flying machines, may well fit here. (But [[Stock Footage]] of their [[Epic Fail]]]ures will be found at [[Dawn of Flight Failures Montage]].) [[Leonardo da Vinci]] deserves special mention for dreaming up many fanciful aircraft in the early 16th century (several examples below were inspired by his work). The trope likely stopped applying to [[Real Life]] sometime after [[World War I]] as airplanes gradually became more streamlined, less improbable-looking, and more mundane.
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