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

好消息，几小后我就要坐上螺旋桨飞机了。

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

我坐在她旁边的一架单引擎螺旋桨飞机上。

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

从那起，所有现代喷气式飞机甚至一些涡轮螺旋桨飞机都配备了自己的 APU。

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

区域航线使用的涡轮螺旋桨飞机外，其机队完全由一种类型的飞机组成。

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

跟随波音 747 的小型涡轮螺旋桨飞机需要至少 6 海里的距离。

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

视频显示，这架 ATR72 双引擎涡轮螺旋桨飞机在坠地前在空中螺旋式下降。

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

而飞行米格尔·苏亚雷斯表示轻型飞机螺旋桨的引擎故障代表着没有不会有任何生还机会。

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

他们三都对展出的巨大飞机螺旋桨的纯粹美丽感到震惊。

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，因为当大多数飞机螺旋桨都针旋转的。

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

如果您乘坐的小型通勤涡轮螺旋桨飞机，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螺旋桨飞机，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一号螺旋桨飞机，一个男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，而直升飞机螺旋桨呜呜的旋转声却加强了，还有回音，像巨在鼓掌。

And he says, he's talking, it's really loud, it's a prop plane, it's Piper Cup, and he says, " Are you sure you cannot see the coastline? "

他说，他在说话，周边噪音很大，那一架涡轮螺旋桨飞机，派珀轻型飞机，他说：“你确定你看不到海岸线吗？”

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.

当螺旋桨飞机降落到伊卢利萨特， 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，但带有八个螺旋桨的全电动飞机看起来更像一架载无机。

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.

只有螺旋桨飞机在旺格雷运行， 这意味着，非正在进行一些疯狂的飞机设计，否则任何可以飞行 22 小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----一种小型螺旋桨式客运飞机还要重。该飞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。

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 正在开发一种更窄、更轻的机翼，机翼与小型螺旋桨飞机一样，机翼从机身底部延伸出一根支柱。

So it takes off vertically like a helicopter and then immediately tilts the four propellers forward to a longitudinal horizontal configuration, so that it cruises like a propeller driven airplane.

它会像直升机一样垂直起飞，然后立即将四个螺旋桨向前倾斜成纵向水平结构，这样它就像螺旋桨驱动的飞机一样进行巡航。