backdrifter, certainly. I've just grabbed this off the internet, and haven't read it all through, but I think it will suffice.
http://www.main.org/p.../glxywest/vimanas.htm
The bible holds one particularly vivid account of something that sounds very much flying machine. If you want to check it out in full, it's in the first chapter of Ezekiel. Ezekiel of course, wouldn't have had a clue what he was seeing, so bear in mind that although he described it in some detail, he described it in the only way he could - and he thought it was God. This is basically what he says:
//And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire........... And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters .......//
(I have to ask what omnipresent God needs to come hurtling out of the north - and to make such fuss and noise doing it?).
Incidentally, the possibility that Ezekiel speaks of a flying machine was disputed by an eminent Nasa engineer, but after studying the text he subsequently changed his opinion.
It's all food for thought. :o)