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在20世纪30年代的飞行史上还从来没有人幻想过史默奇式的飞行。没有任何人看重过新罕布什尔州狂热的天文学教授查尔斯·刘易斯·格雷沙姆博士所发明的古怪浮充副汽油箱,然而史默奇对于这种油箱却充满信心。1937年7月初,这个身材瘦小、阴郁、不引入注意的22岁年轻车库工人,出现在罗斯福·菲尔德机场的时候,正在慢慢地咀嚼着一大口烂烟草,并声称道:“现在还没有人看见这架飞机起飞过。”一些报纸简略地提及并嘲讽了他所提出的2.5万英里的飞行计划。航空专家和汽车专家们粗率地表示不考虑这个主意,
No one ever imagined a Somfy flight in the flight history of the 1930s. No one has ever valued the quirky floating fuel tank invented by Dr. Charles Lewis Gresham, a professor of astronomy at New Hampshire, but Smith is confident about the fuel tank. At the beginning of July 1937, the slim, gloomy, unnoticed 22-year-old young garage worker was slowly chewing on a big, rotten piece of tobacco as he appeared at Roosevelt Field Airport and claimed: “There are no Saw the plane taking off. ”Some newspapers made a brief reference to and ridiculed his proposed 25,000-mile flight plan. Aviation experts and automotive experts said crudely that they did not consider the idea,