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

好消息是，几小时后我就要坐上桨飞机了。

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

我坐在她旁边的架桨飞机上。

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

从那时起，所有现代喷气式飞机甚至些涡轮桨飞机都配备了自己的 APU。

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

跟随波音 747 的小型涡轮桨飞机需要至少 6 海里的距离。

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

而飞行员米格尔·苏亚雷斯表示轻型飞机桨的故障代表着没有不会有任何生还机会。

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，因为当时大多数飞机桨都是顺时针转的。

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

如果您乘坐的是小型通勤涡轮桨飞机，您的航班与前架 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飞的涡轮桨飞机，我们将回顾早上的情况。

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飞行器桨飞机，个男人在美国的北卡罗莱纳尝试了那次知名的试飞。

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，而直升飞机桨呜呜的转声却加强了，还有回音，像是巨人在鼓掌。

As the propellers turned and the plane moved forward on two small wheels, Wilbur ran alongside, holding a wing to steady the plane.

当桨转动，飞机通过两个小轮子向前移动时，威尔伯在旁边跑着，握住机翼来稳定飞机。

As the propeller plane makes its descent to Ilulissat, I see snow-covered hills and the glistening tongue of the Icefjord, a Unesco world heritage site.

当桨飞机降落到伊卢利萨特时， 我看到了白雪覆盖的山丘和联合国教科文组织世界遗产冰峡湾闪闪发光的舌头。

And despite being called a flying car, the all electric aircraft with eight propellers looks more like a drone with a person on top.

尽管被称为飞行汽车，但带有八个桨的全电动飞机看起来更像是架载人无人机。

Only prop planes operate at Whangarei meaning, unless some wild aircraft designs are in the works, no aircraft that could fly for 22 hours could land there.

只有桨飞机在旺格雷运行， 这意味着，除非正在进行些疯狂的飞机设计，否则任何可以飞行 22 小时的飞机都无法降落在那里。

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飞机----种小型桨式客运飞机还要重。该飞机服务于维多利亚机场----个位于德州海岸附近的地区机场。

Boeing and NASA, America's space agency, are developing a narrower, lighter wing held in place with a strut extending from the bottom of the fuselage as in small propeller planes.

波音公司和美国航天局 NASA 正在开发种更窄、更轻的机翼，机翼与小型桨飞机样，机翼从机身底部延伸出根支柱。

The last frontier in air travel was more than half a century ago when we went from propeller aircraft into the jet age, and it's been a long time since we had a step forward.

航空旅行的最后个前沿领域是在半个多世纪以前，那时我们从桨飞机进入到喷气式飞机时代，而我们已经很久没有向前迈出步了。

It was a somber day as just two days prior, a member of their team, air mechanic Freddy Jackson, had died accidentally by an airplane propeller and his funeral was earlier the same day that this photo was taken.

这是个阴沉的日子， 就在两天前，他们团队的名成员， 空气机械师弗雷迪杰克逊，因飞机桨意外死亡， 他的葬礼是在拍摄这张照片的同天早些时候举行的。