英语翻译A few years after the first aero planes had started to fly,another astronomer,William H.Pickering,wrote:“The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic and carrying innumerable passengers in a way equivalent to our modern steamships...It seems safe to say that such ideas must be wholly visionary,and even if a machine could get across with one or two passengers,the expense would be too great for any but the ca

英语翻译
A few years after the first aero planes had started to fly,another astronomer,William H.Pickering,wrote:“The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic and carrying innumerable passengers in a way equivalent to our modern steamships...It seems safe to say that such ideas must be wholly visionary,and even if a machine could get across with one or two passengers,the expense would be too great for any but the capitalist who could own his own yacht(快艇).”