When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean June 30, 2009, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong.
当飞机从空中坠落,比如2009年6月30日的一架也门客机在飞往印度洋的科摩罗群岛时那样,黑匣子是找出问题所在的最佳选择。
The damage to skill and craftsmanship—that's needed to build a complex airliner or a tractor, or for a worker to move up from assembler to machinist to supervisor—went largely unnoticed.
对技术和工艺的损害——制造一架复杂的飞机或拖拉机,或工人从装配工到机械师再到监督员所需要的技术和工艺——在很大程度上被忽视了。
The airliner flew above the clouds.
大型客机在云层上面飞行。
The Tupolev Tu-144 is a Soviet supersonic airliner, developed in the 1960s.
镇馆之宝——图波列夫tu- 144,苏联产超音速客机,研发于1960年代。
Air Travel: the first jet airliner, the Boeing 707, was introduced in 1959.
1959年,波音707,第一架喷气式飞机问世。
Just 1kg less per seat can save some 40,000 litres of fuel per airliner over a year.
如果每个座位减少1公斤的重量,每个客机就可以在一年的时间里节约4万升的燃料。
Just 1kg less per seat can save some 40, 000 litres of fuel per airliner over a year.
如果每个座位减少1公斤的重量,每个客机就可以在一年的时间里节约4万升的燃料。
But even a small airliner still contains several tonnes of costly aerospace-grade titanium.
但即便是一架小型客机依然包含着数吨造价昂贵的航天级别钛板。
The researchers at Filton have a much bigger ambition: to print the entire wing of an airliner.
菲尔顿的研究者有一个更远大的抱负:印制客机的整翼。
A Congolese airliner has crashed in the eastern city of Kisangani, killing at least 46 people.
刚果一架飞机在东部城市基桑加尼坠毁,造成至少46人死亡。
He said there were "powerful" tropical storms in the area where the airliner disappeared from radar screens.
他说,飞机失去联系时所处的位置有着“强大的”热带风暴。
RNP combines the avionics in a modern jet airliner with GPS to guide pilots along a narrow path to the airport.
RNP为现代飞机安装与电子设备结合在一起的GPS,以此引导飞行员沿着一条狭窄通道进入机场。
An airliner has made an emergency landing in the United States after a hole blew open in the roof of its passenger cabin.
一架客机因为客舱顶部出现漏洞在美国紧急着陆。
The avionics on a modern airliner are already capable of flying it for most of its journey with the autopilot switched on.
现代客机上的航空电子设备已经能够在自动飞行模式下完成大部分旅程。
But with 840 firm orders even after a spate of cancellations, the 787 is still the fastest-selling new airliner in history.
但由于有840份公司订单(甚至在一大批订单取消后),787仍然是历史上销售最快的新型客机。
Brackets are only the beginning. The researchers at Filton have a much bigger ambition: to print the entire wing of an airliner.
支架还仅仅只是个开始,菲尔顿的研究员们有更大的雄心伟志:他们想印刷出客机的一整个机翼。
Chesley B. Sullenberger III, the pilot who successfully landed an airliner in the Hudson River, was, everyone agreed, a hero.
每个人都同意将成功使飞机迫降在哈德逊河上的机长切斯利·b·苏伦伯格称之为英雄。
An air France airliner flying from Rio DE Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic, with the loss of all 228 people on board.
一架从里约热内卢飞往巴黎的发行飞机坠落大西洋,机上载有228名乘客。
The Boeing 707-120 debuts as the world's first successful commercial jet airliner, ushering in the era of accessible mass air travel.
首次亮相的这架波音707- 120作为世界上第一架成功的商业化喷气式客机,宣告了大规模空中旅行时代的来临。
It's been a long time since passengers have been allowed to smoke on an airliner in the United States. It's the same story in Europe.
很久以前,美国航班就已禁止乘客在客机上吸烟,欧洲航班也曾这样做。
LOOKING out from a window seat in the midsection of an airliner, you can see clearly that the wing is made up of many moving parts.
如果您乘坐的一架航班的座位正好位于客舱中段的靠窗位置,抬头向外观望,您就可以清楚地看到,机翼是由许多可以运动的部件所组成。
The FBI aircraft was not laid out like a commercial airliner. There were no rows of airline seats, only clusters - about a dozen in all.
FBI的飞机布局不同于商务客机,机舱里没有成排的座位,只有些钢管椅——这架飞机里有一打左右。
But, whatever the cause of the accident, few people were surprised by it. It was the third airliner to crash in Indonesia this year.
但无论事故因何而起,也没人感到震惊,因为这已是印尼今年第三次发生航空事故。
Additive manufacturing could thus help build greener aircraft-especially if all the 1, 000 or so titanium parts in an airliner can be printed.
因此,加法制造技术有助于建立更加绿色环保的飞机,特别是当客机的1,000多个钛材料部件都可以被打印出来。
Additive manufacturing could thus help build greener aircraft-especially if all the 1,000 or so titanium parts in an airliner can be printed.
加法制造能制造出更加绿色环保的飞机——特别是,如果一架飞机上的1000多个钛部件都能被印刷出来。
The converted commercial airliner is equipped with an instrument that can measure a hurricane’s wind profile from ground to the aircraft’s height.
这架被改装过的商业客机上装配了可以用来测量飓风风剖线(wind profile)的仪器,不管是在地面还是在飞行高度上,仪器都能发挥作用。
WHEN an airliner takes off for a transatlantic flight it needs to carry some 80 tonnes of fuel, which accounts for around one-fifth of its weight.
一架飞越大西洋的飞机大约需要携带80公吨的燃料,这约占飞机重量的五分之一。
October 24, 2003, Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic transport to a close, at least for the time being.
2003年的10月24日,协和式飞机进行了其最后一次商业飞行,从而结束了客机的超音带运输时代。
Two recent bomb plots against US targets - two American cargo planes in October and a Detroit-bound airliner in December 2009 - originated in Yemen.
最近两枚针对美国的炸弹袭击- - -10月份两架美国货运飞机和2009年12月份的飞往的底特律的飞机——都是在也门策划的。
It is supplying part of the avionics on the Comac C919 airliner through a joint venture with AVIC Systems and plans to make further inroads in that area.
通用以同中航系统建立合资公司的形式参与C919项目的部分航电设备的供应并计划在该领域进一步合作。
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