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You could fill the sky with all the ideas people have had for flying cars -- or what Carl Dietrich calls "flying-driving vehicles."
人類關于飛行汽車的想法充斥了天空。飛行汽車也就是卡爾·迪特里希（ Carl Dietrich）所說的“陸空兩用飛行器（flying-driving vehicles）。”
CARL DIETRICH: "Since the turn of the twentieth century, there have been many hundreds of published concepts for flying-driving vehicles. And some of them have actually been built and flown. But at this point the Transition is the closest to actually getting to the marketplace."
迪特里希表示：“自十九世紀末二十世紀初以來，公布的“陸空兩用飛行器”概念數以百計，而且其中一些概念已實際制造成功并飛上藍天。但這一次Transition（這款飛行汽車的名字）陸空兩用飛行器是最接近于能實際進入市場的。”（注：迪特里希是馬薩諸塞州Terrafugia公司負責人；Terrafugia是這家飛行器公司名字，其拉丁文意為“逃離地面”。）
CARL DIETRICH: "Terrafugia is developing the Transition street-legal airplane, which many people have characterized as the first practical flying car. And the Transition is designed to really be a general aviation airplane, like a Cessna or a Piper, a propeller-powered airplane that can fold up its wings, drive down the road and park in a single-car garage."
迪特里希說：“Terrafugia公司正在開發能在街頭合法行駛的Transition飛機，很多人將其定義為第一輛實用的飛行汽車。Transition被設計成一架真正的通用民航飛機，就像Cessna或Piper。Transition是一種螺旋槳動力，機翼可以折疊，可以在公路上行駛，能夠停放到車庫中的飛機。”（注Cessna賽斯納，Piper派珀，兩者皆為中小型飛機，主要用于私人或商務飛行。）
He says the Transition Roadable Aircraft easily changes to a car. "It takes about twenty seconds. It's like putting the top down on a convertible, only instead of folding up your roof, we're folding up our wings and we're transferring power from a propeller to the wheels for driving on the ground." He says.
他表示，Transition陸空兩用飛行器能夠非常容易地變成一輛汽車。他說：“Transition變成汽車只需要20秒。就像敞篷車把頂棚收起來，不同的是Transition是把機翼折疊起來，同時把動力從螺旋槳轉到車輪，使其可以在地面行駛。”
The Transition had to meet federal safety standards for cars and aircraft. Last year the Federal Aviation Administration agreed to let it weigh more than other light sport aircraft. But even fully loaded, says Mr. Dietrich, it still weighs about half as much as an average car.
Transition必須同時滿足聯邦的汽車和飛行器安全標準。去年，美國聯邦航空管理局允許其重量超過其它輕型運動飛機。但迪特里希表示，Transition即使滿載，它的重量仍然只有普通汽車的一半左右。
The windows, for example, weigh less than traditional automotive safety glass. Terrafugia got permission for that last month from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
以窗戶為例，Transition的玻璃重量低于傳統汽車安全玻璃。上個月，Terrafugia公司獲得了美國公路交通安全管理局在玻璃上的安全許可。
