Flying machine (The War of the Worlds) Flying machine (The War of the Worlds) The Flying machine is one of the fictional machines used by the Martians in H. G. Wells' classic science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds". It is one of the four types of heavy machine the Martians bring with them when they invade Earth, along with the fighting machine, the handling machine, and the embankment machine. The appearance of this aircraft in the novel is very vague. The narrator's brother, escaping by sea, glimpses it shortly after the implied destruction of the Channel Fleet. The narrator himself sees the aircraft abandoned on
The War of the Worlds and toured throughout the UK. Both versions of this stage production utilized narration, lavish projected computer graphics, and a large Martian fighting machine on stage. In the 1980s a joint American-Canadian venture produced the television series "War of the Worlds" that ran for two seasons and was a direct sequel to George Pal's 1953 feature film. Its premise was that the Martians had not died off but were instead stored in suspension by the US government and that most people had just forgotten the previous invasion; the accidental awakening of the Martians results in another war. A "Hey Arnold!" Halloween