但就像云霄基地一样,其目的是要在空中发射和接收飞机。
It would have taken off and landed vertically in, say, a jungle clearing otherwise inaccessibleto the aircraft piggybacking on it.
它要在一块从林里的空地上垂直起降,否则其所载的飞机无法起落。
English Electric was one of the firms merged into what eventually became BAE Systems, andBAE has recently been through its archives and publicised some of the projects dreamed upin the glory days of the 1960s, when designers imaginations were allowed to run riot withlittle consideration of practicality or budget. MUSTARD, for example, was designed bythe British Aircraft Corporation.
英国电气是最终被合并为英国航宇系统公司的众多公司中的一员,BAE最近完成了其档案整理工作,并公开了一些在上世纪六十年代的辉煌岁月中构想出来的项目,其时,设计人员的想象力可以天马行空,无需考虑可行性或者预算。例如,MUSTARD是由英国飞机公司设计的。
It could pass for something out of Fireball XL5 or Supercarthough it also resembles VirginGalactic s SpaceShipTwo which will, Virgin hopes, soon be taking paying passengers to theedge of space.
可以认为其构想来自于《雷霆机五号》或《飞天神车》----不过它也有点像维珍银河公司的太空船二号,维珍公司希望其很快便能载着付费乘客到达太空的边缘。
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