加载中…莱特兄弟日，尚记首飞否？
(2012-12-21 16:52:34)
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美国人在12月17日庆祝“莱特兄弟日”，以纪念两位自行车机械师，他们建造并成功试飞了首架飞行器。
美国在12月17日这一天庆祝“莱特兄弟日”（Wright Brothers Day），以纪念两位自行车机械师――奥维尔和威尔伯·莱特（Orville and Wilbur Wright），他们建造并于1903年12月17日成功试飞首架重于空气的飞行器（上图）。
美国总统欧巴马（Barack Obama）在为该日撰写的总统公告中说：“就像他们之前与之后的许多美国人一样，这两人做出了常人难以想象的事情，而他们的成就改变了我们的生活方式。……时值莱特兄弟日，我们重温他们的惊人壮举，并弘扬他们那种在一个多世纪后仍然鼓舞人心的雄心壮志。”
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On Wright Brothers Day, Remember First Flight
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December 17 is celebrated as Wright Brothers Day in the United States, commemorating two bicycle mechanics who built and flew the first aircraft.
December 17 is celebrated as Wright Brothers Day in the United States, commemorating two bicycle mechanics, Orville and Wilbur Wright, who built and then flew the first heavier-than-air craft on December 17, 1903 (above).
“Like so many Americans before and after them, these two men achieved the unthinkable, and their achievements changed our way of life,” President Obama wrote in his presidential proclamation on the day. “On Wright Brothers Day, we reflect on their astonishing feat and celebrate the ambition it still inspires more than a century later.”
Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/inbrief/2012/12/20121217140054.html#ixzz2Fftit8J8
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