We took a floatplane to the trail head. Our taciturn guide pointed out that it was this robust aircraft that had helped to open up the wilderness in the Fifties.

我们乘坐一架水上飞机来到小道的顶端，沉默寡言的导游指着飞机说，五十年代人们正是在这种飞机的得力帮助下开拓荒野。

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The Reid Flying Submarine (RFS-1) was a true mongrel, constructed by Reid in his spare time using leftover parts from other aircraft and, like Ushakov's design, it was a floatplane.

“雷德飞潜艇”（RFS-1）是典型的混血儿，它是雷德在业余时间里用其他飞机的零碎部件拼凑成的，正如尤沙科夫的设想一样，它是一架浮力飞行器。

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As we were loading our kayaks onto the boat for the trip back to Petersburg, a floatplane suddenly came roaring overhead, skimming above the treetops as it came in for a landing on a nearby bay.

当我们把可雅克装上船准备回彼得斯堡时，突然有一架水上飞机轰鸣着飞过我们头顶，掠过树林降落在附近海面上。

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Hand-built from Sitka spruce by Christopher Saal, a former fisherman and commercial floatplane pilot, the quirky but gorgeous lodge attracts jet-setters. (Forbes 400 member Vinod Khosla visited with a party of 12 in 2003.) Saal, 54, moved to Alaska in 1974 and was here during the spill.

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Step off the floatplane here and you are plunged into a towering landscape with broad, glinting sweeps of water alive with orcas, sea lions, otters, dolphins, and salmon--lots of salmon.

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Sixty-seven percent of victims killed in floatplane accidents die from drowning because they cannot exit the plane as it sinks, a CTV report said.

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