Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory.
每个起飞是自愿性的, 每个降落是强迫性的。

Always try to keep the number of landings you make equal the number of take offs you've made.
经常保持降落数目与起飞数目相等。

When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No-one has ever collided with the sky.
当你觉得混乱时，请保持高度，因为没有人跟天空相撞过…

The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. Large angle of arrival, small probability of survival and vice versa.
生存的机会是跟着陆角度是成反比例的。大的着陆角度，小的生存机会…

There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
要做出好的降落有三个原则，但不幸地，没人知道是哪三个…

If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull the stick back, they get smaller... That is, unless you keep pulling the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again.
当你把控制杆推前，房子变大了；当你把控制杆拉后，房子变细了；但当你拉着不放，
房子又要变大了。

You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.
开始时你有两个袋，运气袋装得满满的，经验袋是空空的。关键就在于，在运气袋变空之前，请把经验袋装得满满的！

Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgment.
好的判断来自经验。很不幸，经验通常是来自坏的判断……

The three most useless things to a pilot are the altitude above you, runway behind you and a tenth of a second ago.
对于飞行员来说，最没用的三件事：在你上面的高度、在你背后的跑道，以及刚过去的十分一秒。(三件事也可以理解為：白白损失的高度，失误错过的跑道，以及刚过去的十分一秒。)

There are old pilots and there are bold pilots. There are, however, no old bold pilots.
这里有老飞行员，也有勇敢的飞行员；但是，这里并没有勇敢的老飞行员。

You know you've landed with the wheels up if it takes full power to taxi to the elevator.
当你要开加力才能把飞机驶进停机坪，你就知道刚才降落时, 忘记了放下起落架…

Flying isn't dangerous. Crashing is what's dangerous.
飞行不是危险的，撞机才是危险的！

The ONLY time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
你唯一会嫌汽油太多的时候，就是着了火的时候…

A 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away. A 'great' landing is one after which they can use the plane again.
一次“好” 的降落，就是说你可以安全步离机舱；一次“极好” 的降落，就是说这架飞机可以再用。

The propeller is just a big fan in front of the plane used to keep the pilot cool. When it stops, you can actually watch the pilot start sweating.
螺旋浆其实只是一个令飞行员凉快的大风扇，当它停了，基本上你会看到飞行员开始冒汗了…

Helicopters can't fly; they're just so ugly the earth repels them.
直升机不能飞的，只是它们太丑了，连地球也排斥它们

Now, it has been reduced to a nebula of debris. And that may prove to be its most lasting legacy.

In January, China blasted the Fengyun 1-C into oblivion with a land-based anti-satellite missile from its southwestern Xichang spaceport. It was the first kill of a satellite by a land-based missile ever conducted by any nation, including the United States and Russia.

The message was hard to miss: China is ready -- and increasingly able -- to challenge the U.S. military advantage in space.

"Competition is moving toward the new frontier, space," said Arthur Ding, a research fellow at Taiwan's National Chengchi University.

To space and military experts, China's success is no surprise -- its military-run space program has taken a great leap forward in recent years.

It launched its first manned space flight in 2003. A second mission in 2005 put two astronauts into orbit for a week, and a third manned launch is planned for next year. This year, China plans to launch a probe that will orbit the moon.

But some see the anti-satellite missile as evidence that China's program is taking an alarming direction.

"The successful test of a Chinese direct-ascent anti-satellite weapon represents a new and dangerous phase of Chinese foreign policy," said Tom Ehrhard, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, a military think tank.

"Despite official statements about its 'peaceful rise,' China aims to challenge the internationally recognized sanctity and neutrality of the 'commons,' those areas like international waters, airspace, cyberspace, and space itself," he said.

A host of other nations -- from Japan to Israel -- have spy satellites collecting military data, and the United States also has been considering weapons in space.

Satellites are already the eyes and ears of the U.S. military, used to guide missiles to their targets, provide detailed information on enemy positions and movements and make immediate, global communications possible. The next step, first envisioned during Ronald Reagan's presidency, would be weapons such as lasers that could be used from space to destroy or disable enemy satellites or possibly even targets on the ground.

U.S. military planners have long warned that the satellites they depend upon are vulnerable. A 2001 report by a commission headed by Donald Rumsfeld, then defense secretary-designate, said the U.S. is "an attractive candidate for a space Pearl Harbor" and the country needed to develop systems to protect them.

Space weaponry

China and Russia, which like Washington have signed the 1967 treaty outlawing weapons of mass destruction in space, advocate a complete ban on anti-satellite and other space weaponry. The Bush administration, however, blocked a U.N. resolution to that effect in 2005. Beijing and Moscow resubmitted a similar proposal this year.

Beijing says it wants to bring Washington back to the negotiating table, and that its satellite kill was in line with its larger goal of demilitarizing space.

"China opposes the weaponization of space and any arms race," Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said. "The test is not targeted at any country and will not threaten any country."

Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed after the satellite kill that Moscow continues to oppose weapons in space and criticized Washington, not Beijing, for planning space-based weapons, which he said was the reason behind the Chinese test.

"We must not let the genie out of the bottle," he warned.

The United States and Soviet Union too have shot down satellites, but did not use ground-based missiles. The U.S. did it in 1985 with an air-launched missile, and the Soviets used a hunter satellite to approach its target and then fire at it.

Bill Sweetman, an analyst with Jane's Space Systems and Industry, said the Chinese test does not violate any treaties, but deliberately hits at a sensitive nerve.

"The Chinese are aware of a difference between them and the U.S.; the U.S., and Western forces in general, are highly dependent on low Earth orbit assets such as imaging spacecraft and GPS, but the Chinese are not," he said.

The test, he noted, was also sure to hold Washington's attention for years to come. The debris from the satellite will continue to float in space, a hazard to other spacecraft.

"You fill low Earth orbit with high-velocity buckshot," he said.

空間武器

  中國和俄羅斯（在1967年和美國簽署了廢除大規模殺傷性武器條約）提倡全面禁止反衛星和其他空間武器。然而Bush（布什）政府在2005年阻擾了聯合國在這方面努力的決策。北京和莫斯科在今年重新提交了相似的議案。
  北京聲稱想把華盛頓帶回談判桌，他的衛星獵殺試驗符合其空間無軍事化的巨大目標。
 “中國反對太空軍事化和任何的軍事競賽。”外交部發言人劉建超說，“試驗不針對任何國家也不會威脅任何國家。”
  俄羅斯總統 Vladimir Putin（普金）在衛星獵殺試驗后強調莫斯科仍舊會繼續反對空間武器同時指責華盛頓而不是北京，計劃在外太空部署武器，他說這個是原因所在。
  “我們絕對不能把妖魔放出瓶子”他警告道。
  美國和前蘇聯曾經擊落過衛星，但是沒有使用路基導彈。美國在1985年使用空射導彈摧毀了衛星，蘇聯使用衛星獵殺器接近到目標並且擊毀了目標。
  Bill Sweetman,《簡氏空間系統合和工業》的分析員，說中國的試驗沒有違反任何條約，但是故意觸及到敏感的神經。
  “中國人意識到他們與美國之間的不同：美國、西方在常規力量上高度依賴低軌道的地球衛星，比如間諜成像衛星和GPS（全球衛星定位系統）。但是中國卻不同”
  他提到試驗也一定會引起華盛頓近幾年的注意。軌道上的碎片仍舊會在空間漂浮，對其他空間器是個威脅。
  “你們在地球低軌道上撒滿了高速鉛彈”他說。

--FAF-Rei譯

U.S. official: Chinese test missile obliterates satellite

POSTED: 8:58 a.m. EST, January 19, 2007 POSTED: 1358 GMT (2158 HKT), January 19, 2007

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- China last week successfully used a missile to destroy an orbiting satellite, U.S. government officials told CNN on Thursday, in a test that could undermine relations with the West and pose a threat to satellites important to the U.S. military.

According to a spokesman for the National Security Council, the ground-based, medium-range ballistic missile knocked an old Chinese weather satellite from its orbit about 537 miles above Earth. The missile carried a "kill vehicle" and destroyed the satellite by ramming it.

The test took place on January 11. (Watch why the U.S. has protested the missile strike )

Aviation Week and Space Technology first reported the test: "Details emerging from space sources indicate that the Chinese Feng Yun 1C (FY-1C) polar orbit weather satellite launched in 1999 was attacked by an asat (anti-satellite) system launched from or near the Xichang Space Center."

A U.S. official, who would not agree to be identified, said the event was the first successful test of the missile after three failures.

The official said that U.S. "space tracking sensors" confirmed that the satellite is no longer in orbit and that the collision produced "hundreds of pieces of debris," that also are being tracked.

The United States logged a formal diplomatic protest.

"We are aware of it and we are concerned, and we made it known," White House spokesman Tony Snow said.

Several U.S. allies, including Canada and Australia, have also registered protests, and the Japanese government said it was worrisome.

"Naturally, we are concerned about it from the viewpoint of security as well as peaceful use of space," said Yashuhisa Shiozaki, chief cabinet secretary. He said Japan has asked the Chinese government for an explanation.

Britain has complained about lack of consultation before the test and potential damage from the debris it left behind, The Associated Press reported.

The United States has been able to bring down satellites with missiles since the mid-1980s, according to a history of ASAT programs posted on the Union of Concerned Scientists Web site. In its own test, the U.S. military knocked a satellite out of orbit in 1985.

Under a space policy authorized by President Bush in August, the United States asserts a right to "freedom of action in space" and says it will "deter others from either impeding those rights or developing capabilities intended to do so."

The policy includes the right to "deny, if necessary, adversaries the use of space capabilities hostile to U.S. national interests."

Low Earth-orbit satellites have become indispensable for U.S. military communications, GPS navigation for smart bombs and troops, and for real-time surveillance. The Chinese test highlights the satellites' vulnerability.

"If we, for instance, got into a conflict over Taiwan, one of the first things they'd probably do would be to shoot down all of our lower Earth-orbit spy satellites, putting out our eyes," said John Pike of globalsecurity.org, a Web site that compiles information on worldwide security issues.

"The thing that is surprising and disturbing is that [the Chinese] have chosen this moment to demonstrate a military capability that can only be aimed at the United States," he said.

華盛頓（CNN）--中國上周（2007.1.11）成功使用導彈摧毀了一顆軌道衛星，美國政府官員周四告訴CNN記者，這個實驗可能會危害中國與西方的關係，這種衛星的威脅對美國軍方來説是極其嚴重的。

根據美國安全委員會的發言人說，路基的彈道導彈擊中了一顆位于地球上方537公里軌道老舊的中國氣象衛星，導彈攜帶了一個獵殺器“kill vehicle”，用撞擊摧毀了衛星。

試驗進行與1月11日（哇，國家送我的生日禮物！~~）

《航空周刊》和《空間技術》首先報道了這個實驗：“來自于空間資源的細節表明中國的風雲-1C(FY-1C)極軸氣象衛星（發射於1999年）被從西安航天中心或附近地方發射的反衛星系統(anti-satellite system)摧毀。”

美國官方一位不願意透露姓名的人說這次試驗是在三次失敗后的首次成功。

官員說美國空間探測器證實了那顆衛星已經不再軌道上，衝撞所產生的數百個殘骸碎片仍舊在追蹤中。

美國提出了正式的外交抗議。

白宮發言人托尼說“我們意識到了這件事而且十分關注，我們想更確切的了解相關事項”

一些美國聯盟包括加拿大和澳大利亞已經提出了抗議，日本政府表示擔心。

安全内閣主任Yashuhisa Shiozaki說：“自然，我們基於安全的角度關注這件事，同時希望和平利用空間”，他說日本政府已經要求中國政府做出解釋。（他們最好能夠閉嘴）

聯合出版社報道，英國政府譴責在試驗之前缺少磋商，而且此事件會帶來潛在危險。

根據在相關科學網站報道的ASAT計劃的歷史，八十年代中期美國已經具備用導彈擊落衛星的能力。在那次測試中，美國導彈在1985年成功的擊落了一顆衛星。

在布什總統8月批准的空間政策，美國聲稱在空間有自由行動的權利，而且說將會阻止其他任何危害這些權利或發展此种能力的活動。政策包括擁有在必要時阻止對手使用危害美國國家利益的空間技術的權利。（這不是典型的流氓麽）

低軌道地球衛星已經成爲美國軍方不可缺少通信工具、用於智能炸彈和軍隊的GPS導航和實時監控。中國的實驗突出了了衛星的脆弱性。

globalsecurity.org（收集處理全球安全問題的網站）約翰.派克說“如果我們立刻捲入臺灣衝突，他們要做的第一件事將會擊落我們所有的低軌道地球間諜衛星，讓我們瞎眼”

他說：“值得驚奇和疑惑的事是中國選擇了這次機會來展示僅僅針對美國的軍力”

點評：12.29日剛剛官方高調曝光J-10，1.11號就進行了具有“針對性”的反衛星試驗，或許從中我們能依稀看到中國對待臺灣問題上的強硬轉變。這些展示是極具針對性，你老美這方面不是強項麽，那我也給你看看我的對策。衛星在現代軍事上用途的重要性不言而明，可以說沒有衛星的支持，作戰模式立刻回到二戰。美國雖然在這方面佔有絕對優勢，但這也是他的弱勢所在，只要開戰能夠敲掉對方的眼睛和耳朵，那麽至少在常規武器層面上的作戰，他們將不會有任何優勢。美國最爲擅長的“斬首”功夫一旦破解，接下來比的將是國家的内功了（硬實力）。我不知道美軍在沒有衛星定位導航，smart bombs全都stupid時，他的優勢感從何而來，臺灣是否還會願意捲入。對待臺灣方面中國現在是暴風雨前的寧靜，任憑臺灣怎麽閙，沒有什麽反應，再看看軍事上的準備，中央似乎武統漸漸佔了優勢。當然這也可以看作是奧運前先給臺灣的美國主子亮兩下子，免得08奧運臺灣狗亂吠，你主子要是不好好管狗的話，到時候可就打狗不看主人了阿。

前途委實兇險，唯願天佑中華！