There are numerous forms of technically functional flying machines that have been created on Attovian soil. Nearly all of them involve some combination of Chomkar and Leshnot workings to manipulate and heat the air under or around some kind of lift source. Large balloons that are tied over a Meyda-circle that compresses and super heats the air above it. Wings that strap to a person’s back each inscribed with a Meyda-marked Circle that forces that inverts the previous example and additionally heats the air providing updrafts. None have, ironically, taken off in society as useful or promising unfortunately. This is thanks to two failed expeditions to take such machines over the open oceans, defying the spawn of Graskoroth and perhaps discovering new landmasses in the process. Nearly a decade apart from one another the first was conducted by a Nammalian woman by the name of Leili Parn in the year 1234 ToR.
Leili had constructed a pair of sturdy leather wings she called the Ayinun Glider. After more than a dozen successful experiments she took it out over open water and flew successfully away from shore about 10 Gohass^[That is roughly 5 miles], until the Meyda-well connected to the glider’s Circles suddenly stopped consuming Meyda and she nor her glider were seen again. Most assume this was a result of her flight being much longer than any of the previous test runs and she wore down quickly towards the end, losing control and plummeting to a cold watery demise. But thanks to effectively zero information about the reasons for the crash, and no remains of Leili’s body or the glider having been found washed up on shore leaves many questions that theorists and academics enjoy picking apart. Perhaps there is a distance beyond the landmass where Meyda refuses to travel? Or maybe if one travels far enough away Graskoroth sends spawn into the sky where Hormus and Lielun claim no right to it?
Eleven years later in 1245 ToR Master Tiarnach Oibhachta conducted the second major attempt at crossing into the open ocean. This second event was simpler and less fraught with mystery though just as tragic and damaging to the pursuit of flight over the oceans as the first. Master Tiarnach wanted a stable way to control flight without tiring himself, being fond of the straightforward interpretation of Leili’s failure being due to a lack of stamina in the end. Master Tiarnach built a “Rugadhian Lift Sac” which much to his chagrin the common folk enjoyed calling Tiarnach’s big Kasaaki due to the similarities between his invention and those gas filled fauna that float through the woodlands. Tiarnach being a Rugadhian conducted extensive tests before the actual day, logging each obsessively and making well over a hundred minor tweaks to the design of the physical machine itself and the Meyda-circle it was powered by. Despite the meticulous nature of his progress when the day came something went awry only an Esprak^[Around 10 minutes] into the flight and one of the tethers connecting the balloon’s canvas form to the basket Tiarnach rode in came undone and he spiraled into the ocean where he was rapidly beset by Reachers and died swiftly.
All of this results in recent stigmas against further attempts and if someone desired to take a similar route as the two previous examples they would need to fund it themselves entirely. Flight over the continent is not an unreasonable aim and is theoretically possible, though the logistics of fueling such devices with Clips or Minor Stones makes it a sketchy investment at best. Though set back there will surely be a day when this problem is solved.