The front of the plane usually bears the brunt of any impact, so passengers in the tail have a 40 percent higher survival rate than those at the front.

飞机前排的座位总是首当其中地受到影响，所以在尾部的乘客要比在前排的乘客高40%的存活几率。

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His plane was still falling fast, even after he managed to decrease the sink rate.

尽管他已降低了飞机的下降速度，可飞机仍在迅速俯冲。

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The software can work out, for example, the exact rate at which a plane should rise into thinner air (to reduce drag) as fuel burn makes it lighter.

比如，它能够计算出飞机向最薄的云层（以减轻阻力）上升的准确率，以减轻飞机自身重量。

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That means downlink speeds of five to 12 megabytes and uplink speeds of two to five megabytes a rate that Melone compared to shrinking a 14-hour plane flight to 80 minutes.

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This particular box would be installed in a fighter jet, permitting the pilot to upload video at a rate of 2MB per second, presumably fed from another plane, satellite or nearby ground troops.

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Although all three versions of the plane are making steady progress, production has not ramped up at the rate Lockheed hoped, and a recent government report on various glitches encountered in development suggests the program is still not ready for high-rate production.

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