Modern blimps use helium instead of hydrogen to maintain buoyancy.

现代软式小飞艇，利用氦取代氢来保持浮力。

Unlike other aircraft, blimps do not need to form a precise aerodynamic shape.

不像其他的飞机，飞艇不需要一个精确的气动布局。

It made unambiguous, even to the most nostalgic blimps, America's supremacy over its Western Allies.

即使对最为怀旧的人，苏伊士运河危机也清楚的表明，美国的优势已经压过了它的西方盟友。

As a result blimps, adjusted to hover at appropriate heights, are often used to relay data to and from satellites.

结果是被调整到盘旋在适当高度的飞艇，经常被用来作为接受和发送卫星信号的中转站。

Although certainly slower that hopping on a jet, the hybrid blimps are nearly silent and require very little infrastructure to take off and land.

虽然肯定要比喷气式飞机速度慢一些，但是混合型的飞艇基本上没有噪声，同时起飞和降落都不需要下面的基础设施。

In November 2008 Aerostar International of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, began filling a $1.8m order for 36 blimps to be deployed by the American armed forces in Iraq.

2008年11月，南达科塔的苏福尔斯宇宙之星国际公司开始为价值180万美元的订单供应36架气球飞艇，美军将它们部署在伊拉克。

Platforms for aerial photography include fixed-wingaircraft, helicopters, balloons, blimps and dirigibles, rockets, kites, poles, parachutes, vehicle mounted poles .

航空摄影的支持平台包括固定翼机、直升机、热气球、小型飞艇、飞船、火箭、风筝、杆子、降落伞和车载撑杆。

Its prolific output of ideas includes blimps creeping nose-to-tail around cities, with seats hanging off them just above the ground so that people can jump on and off at will.

在其大量的创意其中，包括了穿梭于城市各个角落的飞艇，并在艇下悬挂著座椅，供人们随意上下。

It has got around the state monopoly on advertising by deploying its trademark blimps, and pre-empted objections to that by using them to advocate a worthy cause: safe driving.

固异特公司使用其软式小型飞船的商标在国家垄断的媒体上大做广告，为了反对其垄断还抢先打出了有价值的倡议：安全驾驶。

This means that like a traditional, round ballon-and unlike the elongated dirigible blimps that have hitherto been used as serious modes of commercial transport-the craft is "directionless".

这意味着它像一个传统的圆形气球，并不像那些迄今一直作为商业运输使用的瘦长的可驾驶的飞艇，此飞船没有方向性。

At least 20 countries use blimps—both global military powers, such as America, Britain and France, and smaller regional ones, including Ireland, Pakistan, Poland and the United Arab Emirates.

至少有20个国家使用气球飞艇——无论是美、英、法这样的全球军事强国，还是爱尔兰、巴基斯坦、波兰、阿拉伯联合酋长国这样稍小的地区性势力。