For anyone who's ever wanted to skip airport security lines and boarding delays, a newly designed flying car may pave the way for future personal transportation.

如果有人曾经想要跳过机场的安全航线和防止登飞机时的延误，那么一种新设计的飞行汽车，可能为未来的个人交通方式铺平了道路。

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Unusually tall columns, flying buttresses, towering spires, and narrow windows, all create vertical lines that appear to jut out perpendicular to the surface of the Earth.

这些建筑常常有高高的柱子、飞拱、高耸的尖塔和逼仄的窗子，所有这些都构造出竖线，看上去，都突出来与地表垂直。

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Its idea involves flying 12 sets of lines with four 500-sq metre kites on each.

这个设计包括12个风筝机组，每个机组上有4个500平方米大小的风筝。

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The report says up to one billion birds die each year from flying into objects like power lines, windows and tall buildings.

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Unless you are, like me, flying Delta Air Lines.

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The project started with attempts to charge by simply flying near power lines, but when that method yielded only micro-watts of juice, focus shifted to actually landing on the lines.

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I'm not convinced by the flying-V character lines on the car's fuselage.

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