In brighter news, I am getting on a prop plane in a couple hours.

好消息是，几小时后我就要上螺机了。

Pilots like Miguel Suarez say engine failure on a light propeller-driven plane does not offer much chance for survival.

而行员米格尔·苏亚雷斯表示轻型机螺的引擎故障代表着没有不会有任何生还机会。

A small turboprop following a Boeing 747 needs a minimum distance of six nautical miles.

跟随波音 747 的小型涡轮螺机需要至少 6 海里的距离。

All three were astounded at the sheer beauty of  the huge airplane propellers on display.

他们三人都对展出的巨大机螺的纯粹美丽感到震惊。

Yeah, that was really interesting because before that it was a 600 horsepower prop plane.

是的，那非常有趣，因为在那之前，我驾驶的是一架600马力的螺机。

Because you mentioned how long it takes to get to Europe in a turboprop plane.

因为你提到了乘涡轮螺机去欧洲需要多长时间。

Her dad is like a propeller plane pilot, I think.

她的爸爸像是个螺机行员，我觉得。

The blue sky is blotted out and the whap-whap-whap of the helicopter rotors becomes magnified and echoey, like the clapping of giant hands.

蓝天被遮住，而直升机螺呜呜的转声却加强了，还有回音，像是巨人在鼓掌。

I'm sitting next to her in a single-engine prop plane.

我在她旁边的一架单引擎螺机上。

Since then, all modern jets and even some turboprops have come with their own APUs.

从那时起，所有现代喷气式机甚至一些涡轮螺机都配备了自己的 APU。

But unless they're like, no, they started flying, you know, prop planes when they were seven.

但除非他们像，不，他们在七岁时就开始驾驶螺机。

Apart from turboprops for regional routes, its fleet is made up entirely of one type of aircraft.

除了用于地区航线的涡轮螺机外，其机队完全由一种类型的机组成。

Videos showed the ATR72 twin-engine turboprop plane spiraling out of the sky before hitting the ground.

视频显示，这架 ATR72 双引擎涡轮螺机在坠地前在空中螺式下降。

Their left-turning torque functioned in this way because most aircraft propellers at the  time spun clockwise.

它们的左转扭矩以这种方式起作用，因为当时大多数机螺都是顺时针转的。

If you are in a small commuter turboprop, you'll  need miles of separation between your flight and an A380 preceding you.

如果您乘的是小型通勤涡轮螺机，您的航班与前一架 A380 之间需要保持数英里的间隔。

Many of you will have seen that in New Zealand has cancelled all turboprop flights out of Christchurch tonight and will reviewthe situation in the morning.

你们中的很多人已经看到新西兰取消了所有今晚从克赖斯特彻奇起的涡轮螺机，我们将回顾早上的情况。

TEXAS is home to pickup trucks that weigh more than the titchy propeller-driven passenger planes that serve Victoria, a regional airport near the state's Gulf coast.

德州是个搭乘卡车的好地方。这种卡车比派珀出品的纳瓦霍斯机----一种小型螺式客运机还要重。该机服务于维多利亚机场----一个位于德州海岸附近的地区机场。

I flew on a prop plane to Norway, and ever since I landed, I've been driving 3.5 hours through the Norwegian Highlands.

我乘螺机往挪威， 自降落后，已驱车3.5小时穿越挪威高地。

A man famously took flight in 1903 in North Carolina in America, with the Wright Brothers Orville and Wilbur and their propeller plane the Wright Flyer 1.

1903年随着赖特兄弟的奥维尔及威尔伯尝试他们的赖特行器一号螺机，一个男人在美国的北卡罗莱纳尝试了那次知名的试。

And going from that to the T-45 is one of like the biggest jumps in power in like Navy, you know, machine operation.

从那款600马力的螺机过渡到T-45，可以说是海军机械操作中功率提升最大的跃之一。