It would have been a three-stage space-plane, though only one stage would have made itinto orbit.

　　太空船二号会是一艘三级航天飞船，尽管只需一级便能将其送入轨道。

　　The other two were reusable boosters.

　　其余的两级为可重复使用的助推器。

　　An Anderson version of the Jumping Jeep, also by BAC, might easily have emerged from thepod carried by Thunderbird Two on one of its missions for International Rescue.

　　在雷鸟二号执行国际援助组织的任务时，一辆安德森版的跳跃吉普-也出自BAC-从雷鸟二号携带的隔舱中脱离时或许比较简单。

　　Continuing the vertical-take-off theme, the Jeep would have had 12 fans whose downdraftwould have helped it over obstacles such as ditches.

　　继续刚才垂直起飞的主题，这辆吉普有12个螺旋桨，其产生的向下气流能使吉普跨过壕沟等各种障碍。

　　And Hawker Siddeley s Intercity Vertical-Lift Aircraft, intended as a passenger plane thatcould land in urban airports not much bigger than pocket handkerchiefs, looks like the sort ofthing that would have whisked Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, International Rescue s Londonagent, from her penthouse in Mayfair to New York for a day s shopping.

　　霍克希德利公司的城际垂直起降飞机是想成为一架可以在胸袋手帕那么大的市内机场中着陆的客机，就像那种能让潘妮洛普克雷顿华德夫人从自己位于梅菲尔的阁楼一路飞驰到纽约去购物一整天的飞机。

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