就在去年，一轻量级飞行员试驾了瑞士的太阳能动力飞机，该型飞机白天可以储存太阳能，夜间也能够持续飞行。
Last year a lightweight, piloted Swiss aircraft, solar Impulse, captured enough solar energy during the day to fly throughout the night.
就在F-16C型喷气式战机机头朝下、以每分钟8400英尺（42.5米/秒）的速度呼啸着向地面冲去的时刻，特技飞行员克里斯·斯特里克林猛然意识到：表演无法完成！ 恐怖的时刻到了……（注：事后事故调查表明，他错把飞机显示的海拔高度当成飞机与地面之间的实际距离——可地面本身还有将近200米的海拔高度！
Pointed nose-down and hurtling toward the ground at 8, 400 feet per minute, F-16C fighter jet pilot Chris Stricklin came to a terrible realization: I'm not going to make it.
然后，就在差不多最后1英寸的时候——大概在1950年——它失去控制急剧上升，就像一个飞行员本以为前面是一团虚无的浮云，却突然浮现出一座悬崖峭壁时做出的倾斜大转弯。
Then, in the last inch or so - around 1950 - it veers steeply upwards, like a pilot banking after a cliff has suddenly appeared from what he thought was an empty bank of cloud.
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