记者随同飞行是少有的事,但是,我和摄影师查尔斯·史密斯已得到许可,参加由机组成员和科学家组成的16人小组。
It's rare for journalists to be on this flight, but photographer Charles Smith and I have gotten clearance to join the 16 crew members, officers, and scientists.
小组用即时气象数据进行了模式飞行测试,夜间遇到逆风是个麻烦事。
The team has experimented with simulated flights using real-time meteorological data. Encountering a headwind at night is a worry.
USGS提供任务运行中心、地面处理系统以及飞行运行小组。
USGS is providing the mission operations center and ground processing systems, as well as the flight operations team.
研究小组发现,尽管这些蛛网有在强度和尺寸点像蜘蛛侠织出的蛛网,但是这些达尔文吠蛛只是用他们来捕食像蜉蝣和蜻蜓这样的小型飞行昆虫。
Despite spinning webs of Spider-Man-like size and strength, the Darwin's bark spider USES them to feed mainly on small fry-insects such as mayflies and dragonflies, the team found.
本周早些时候,一个美国宇航局监督小组声称,宇航局未能满足哥伦比亚事故调查委员会为恢复航天飞机安全飞行而提出的15条意见中的3条。
Earlier this week, a panel monitoring Nasa said the agency had failed to meet three of 15 recommendations made by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board for the safe resumption of shuttle flights.
上图所示的这款H系列的体翼混合未来飞行器设计构思来自由麻省理工学院的研究小组。
The Hybrid Wing Body H-Series future aircraft design concept comes from the research team led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
国会委员会开会讨论了上周一份由国会专门小组发布的简要报告,这份报告对太空总署的载人太空飞行计划进行了评价。
The House committee met to discuss a summary report released last week by a White House panel that reviewed NASA's human space flight programme.
在清理前,当来自51区的飞行员报告说在犹他州的残骸仍然可以识别后,小组人员迅速用柏油帆布覆盖所有大块碎片。
Before the cleanup, after pilots from Area 51 had reported that the wreck in Utah was still identifiable, crews quickly covered all large pieces with tarps.
公司的科研小组,正在采用先进泵式喂料系统,为大型飞行器,研制动力更加强大的引擎,现在正在为商业客户的需求,进行飞行测试实验。
The XCOR team then developed a more powerful engine with an advanced pump-fed fuel system for a larger aircraft now being flight-tested for a commercial customer.
这个研究小组发现,同样微小但却对称的飞行体没有这种提拉现象发生。
Tiny symmetrical spheres didn’t exhibit this lift effect, the team found.
鲍勃·拉塞尔是F - 35飞行员系统一体化小组负责模拟的工作人员,他简单说明了代表色彩的含义。
Bob Russell, who manages simulations for the team integrating F-35 pilot systems, simplifies the significance of the colors.
所以,这是一个奇妙的小组,互相沟通,无论在哪里,我们的未来是,不管多快的时间飞行,这一组永远存在!
So, this is a fantastic group to communicate with each other, no matter where we are in the future, no matter how fast the time flying, this group exist forever!
“他们不是总沿着直线飞行,这增加了旅程的长度,”研究小组成员提姆·吉尔福德博士说。
"They don't follow straight lines all the time and this may add miles to their journey," said research team member Dr Tim Guilford.
该小组是侧重于研究低速的特点,设计并扩大其飞行包线范围外的能力。
The team is focused on researching the low-speed characteristics of the design and expanding its flight envelope beyond the limits of current capabilities.
为了详细研究食蚜虻的飞行,该小组使用四部高速数字摄影机,利用摄影测量学技术来重构每个翼在大约22 个位置点的动作。
To study the hoverflies in detail, the team used four high-speed digital video cameras to reconstruct the motion of approximately 22 points on each wing using photogrammetric techniques.
科学小组会利用这一有利条件,Finnegan说:“这将使此次飞行中第一次全部设备同时运行。”
The science team is taking advantage, Finnegan said. "This is the first time in flight that the entire instrument package will be operational simultaneously."
虽然如此,美国国家海洋和大气管理局还是进行了飞行行动以研究这条垃圾带,有两个研究小组最近航行前往收集废弃物和水质样品。
Still, NOAA conducts 47 flyovers to study the garbage patch, and two research teams recently sailed there to collect debris and water samples.
研究小组还对飞行员们进行核磁共振扫描,观察他们的脑部结构。
The subjects were also given MRI scans to look at the structure of their brains.
Graeber认为这起事件纯属闹剧,而他却惊讶地得知一些他曾认为作风严谨的不明飞行物研究小组仍然把此事当真。
Graeber chalked the incident up as a hoax, but was amazed to learn that other UFO groups, ones he had considered more serious, were still taking the Carbondale case seriously.
Graeber认为这起事件纯属闹剧,而他却惊讶地得知一些他曾认为作风严谨的不明飞行物研究小组仍然把此事当真。
Graeber chalked the incident up as a hoax, but was amazed to learn that other UFO groups, ones he had considered more serious, were still taking the Carbondale case seriously.
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