The reason why the flying fortress crashed was that, in the words of a contemporary newspaper, it was "too much airplane for one man to fly".

“飞行堡垒”坠毁的原因，用时下报纸的话来讲，就是“太好的飞机，一名飞行员应付不了”。

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A British firm is upping the ante in a long-held dream to build an airplane that also can fly in space.

一家英国的公司加大投入于多年的梦想，那就是建造一架能够飞往太空的飞机。

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All of us had been trained by Kelly Johnson and believed fanatically in his insistence that an airplane that looked beautiful would fly the same way.

很多受过Kelly Johnson训练的人，都狂热的认同他的说法，一架看起来漂亮的飞机并不会飞得更好。

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In the memorial, there is the X-1, the first airplane to fly faster than sound.

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Like, how to fly the family home, to Palo Alto, in our four-seat airplane.

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But I would rather fly in an airplane with wings designed by one competent aeronautical engineer than one with wings designed by a committee of the first 20, 000 names of non-engineers in the Boston phonebook.

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