The modern airplane design works well, but from a fuel efficiency standpoint, could planes be designed more aerodynamically — to lower drag and increase lift?

现代的飞机设计做得很好，但立足于燃料效率来看，飞机是否能设计得更符合空气动力学——降低阻力还是增加动力？

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The design of this chair was inspired by fighter planes, from its aluminum wrapped curves to its padded leather seat and back.

这款椅子的设计是受战斗机启发，外侧是铝片制成，坐垫和椅背是用皮革填补而成的。

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They can't design cars, trains, planes.

他们不能设计出汽车，火车，飞机。

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With the help of advanced computer technology used to design fighter planes, he has been able to calculate structure, curvature, material and cost so accurately that forms impossible to create and build through traditional methods can now be brought in on budget and on time.

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As an emergency precaution, the Federal Aviation Administration has now said that carriers operating 737s with the same lap-joint design along the roof should inspect the planes after no more than 30, 000 cycles.

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Ostensibly, the idea is to design a system that can expand as more planes use it.

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