Aeroscraft

????在過去十年里，五角大樓重拾對大型飛艇的興趣，因?yàn)樗坪跏情L時(shí)間空中偵察的理想平臺(tái)，同時(shí)也可以為固定翼飛機(jī)去不了的地方運(yùn)送物資（比如沒有跑道的地方）。不過隨著伊戰(zhàn)和阿富汗戰(zhàn)爭的結(jié)束，五角大樓再次失去了對飛艇的興趣，在過去幾年里，美國海陸空三軍各自砍掉了一個(gè)大型飛艇項(xiàng)目。

????可能有些人仍然認(rèn)為飛艇的第二個(gè)黃金時(shí)代會(huì)到來，好在我們還有Aeroscraft。這款飛艇是由加利弗尼亞洲的Worldwide Aeros Corp公司生產(chǎn)的，它可以提起66噸的重物并把它部署到其它某處，不受飛機(jī)跑道的限制。希望有一天這家公司會(huì)結(jié)束原型測試，讓我們看到除了模型以外的東西。（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

????譯者：樸成奎

Aeroscraft

????Over the past decade, the Pentagon found a renewed passion for large-scale, lighter-than-air airships, which seem like ideal platforms for long-duration surveillance and monitoring as well as for hauling cargo to places inhospitable to large fixed-wing aircraft (read: places with no runways). But with the wars in Iraq and now Afghanistan winding down, the Pentagon has lost interest in its massive airships, and the Navy, Air Force, and Army have each killed a massive air ship program over the last couple of years, essentially mothballing hundreds of millions in research and development.

????For those who still believe that a second golden age of airships is realistic even without Pentagon support, there's Aeroscraft. Designed by California-based Worldwide Aeros Corp., the lighter-than-air Aeroscraft could one day lift 66 tons vertically into the air and deposit it somewhere else, no runway necessary. One day, that is, when the company moves beyond testing with a scaled down prototype and gives us something to look at other than a model.