It’s a car. It’s a plane. No, it’s the SD-03!
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In the 1880s, the first automobile was developed and about two decades later, the Wright brothers in North Carolina invented the first successful airplane. Today, the world is closer to combining those two concepts as a Japanese tech company said it completed a manned test flight of a “flying car.”
invent 發明
tech company 科技公司
combine two concepts 結合兩個概念
a test flight 試飛
19世紀80年代開發出了第一輛汽車，大約20年後，北卡羅萊納州的萊特兄弟發明了第一架成功的飛機。今天，世界距離將這兩個概念結合起來更近了，一家日本科技公司表示已完成了「飛行汽車」的載人試飛。
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The company, SkyDrive, said in a news release on Friday that it had completed a flight test using “the world’s first manned testing machine,” its SD-03 model, an electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle. The flight time was four minutes, the company said.
a news release 新聞發布
complete a flight test 完成飛行測試
manned (adj.) 載人的 ; 有人駕駛的, 有人操縱的
unmanned （太空船或崗哨）無人
vertical takeoff and landing 垂直起降
週五，SkyDrive公司在一份新聞稿中表示，該公司已經完成「世界上第一台載人測試機」——該公司的SD-03型電動垂直起降(eVTOL)飛行器——的飛行測試。公司表示飛行時間為四分鐘。
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