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Romeo in appropriate flying machine (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

drone

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'flying machine' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'romeo in appropriate' is the wordplay.
'romeo' becomes 'R' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'appropriate' becomes 'done' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'r' put into 'done' is 'DRONE'.

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(Other definitions for drone that I've seen before include "Remote controlled aircraft" , "RPV" , "Male honey bee, an idler" , "Bagpipe pipe" , "Queen bee1s mate" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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