历史上几个未解的飞机失踪之谜_BEC初级作文

历史上几个未解的飞机失踪之谜

史密森尼国家航空航天博物馆(Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)航空部门主席范德林登(Bob van der Linden)说，这样的事太罕见了，所以大家都十分关注。

Disappearances used to be more common. Amelia Earhart was notable as one of the first female aviators to set distance records in the 1930s. But she remains in the public conscience today more because she disappeared in her Lockheed Electra near New Guinea while attempting to circumnavigate the globe.

失踪事件以前更为常见。埃尔哈特(Amelia Earhart)是在上世纪30年代创造飞行距离纪录的首批女飞行员之一，并且因此扬名。但她现在还为人们所记起的一个更大的原因是，她驾驶着洛克希德-伊莱克特拉(Lockheed Electra)飞机进行环球飞行时，在新几内亚附近失踪。

Today, radar can generally track aircraft large and small. But even in an age of global satellite navigation and the perception of world-wide surveillance, significant areas of Earth are untouched by radar or regular observation.

时至今日，无论飞行器大小，雷达通常都可对其进行追踪。但即使到了全球卫星导航和人们以为的监控遍布世界各地的时代，地球上仍有大片区域是雷达或常规观测无法监测到的。

Empty spots are shrinking. In the 1970s, the 'Bermuda Triangle' loomed in the American imagination after several military planes disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean region between Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda, and other planes and ships were said to have vanished there. Supernatural explanations were eventually debunked.