Help with word

[velocityb0y.livejournal.com]

Hi all -

I'm trying to increase my reading skills by working through a science fiction story (Мой папа – антибиотик) someone here suggested for fledging students.

Unfortunately I'm stumped on the first line:

Сквозь сон я услышал тихий гул снижающегося флаера.

I read this as "Through sleep I heard a soft hum lowering" but I can't find a translation for флаера in my dictionary. Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Comments

[nale.livejournal.com]

It's just Genitive of "флаер/flyer", a kind of aircraft, I guess.

[rabidgerbil.livejournal.com]

My guess is it's a transliteration of the English "flyer" and that it's supposed to mean some sort of futuristic flying device. It makes sense in context, too:

"Through my sleep I heard the quiet hum of the descending flyer."

[yers.livejournal.com]

Флаер is modern slang for an advertising leaflet, so the sentence struck me as psychedelic at first... a piece of paper humming as it circles down to the ground? wow! =) But I guess it really is some kind of aircraft.

[tolangue-agess.livejournal.com]

флаeр is usually a small aircraft

[http://users.livejournal.com/_teemon_/]

Lukianenko. :) Well, nice. Very nice Russian for learning purpuses. Very simple and plain. :)

[pantherclaw.livejournal.com]

Oh... Teemon? o0

[mooze.livejournal.com]

as the folks below said, flyer is a generic term for an individual aircraft of the future developed by the founders of Russian SF genre back in the late 70-th or 80-th (Kir Bulichev, for ex.)

[0zata.livejournal.com]

Of course, this word's mean "flyer" as some flying machine or thing.
But it's some slang - neologism from english language and it's never used, i sure.

it's interesting: also the word "флаер" means "peace of paper (little poster) which sometimes gives you a right to buy a ticket (to the entertainment, for example) like on sale.

sorry for so bad english 8)))