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新华网8月19日电 据科技博客网站Gizmodo报道，BentProp团队将利用水下无人机来搜寻二战失事的战机以及飞行员。
十多名二战飞行员长眠于太平洋底，陪伴他们的是当年翱翔天空的战机。现在说"搜救"，为时已晚，但据《科技新时代》杂志报道，”BentProp计划“的策划人员使用水下无人设备，将令这一段沉在太平洋底的往事浮出水面。
《科技新时代》报道称：
去年，当地渔民在帕劳西海岸大堡礁附近意外发现了一架完好无损的飞机。他们立即通知当地潜水店，后者下潜拍摄了许多珍贵的照片并传给BentProp.斯加侬的团队最终确认失事遗骸是一架“美国海盗”战机。
他们在海底靠近这架海盗战机，工程师们调低自动水下设备的角度，开始用随身携带的GoPro HERO3高清摄像机对飞机进行全面扫描。回到加利福尼亚州之后，团队将用水下无人机拍摄的数千张照片，以及人工拍摄的数百张照片，对这架飞机进行3D重构。
BentProp相信，这一海域还有至少8架二战时候的战机，他们将用名叫“雷默思”的水下无人设备将这些葬身海底的二战战机全部寻回。
译者：张艺
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How Underwater Drones Are Searching For the Lost Pilots of WWII
Deep below the Pacific Ocean, dozens of WWII pilots are lying in watery graves, still inside the aircraft took them across the sky decades ago. It"s far to late for a rescue, but as Popular Science explains, the people behind the BentProp Project—and their undersea drones—are surfacing these soldiers" incredible history.
From Popular Science:
Last year, local spear fishermen diving on Palau"s western barrier reef stumbled across one of the most impressive finds: an intact plane. They alerted the owner of a dive shop, who passed photos of the wreck along to BentProp. Scannon"s team eventually identified the plane as an American Corsair.
When [they] reach the Corsair, engineers lower the [autonomous underwater vehicle], now equipped with GoPro HERO3 HD cameras, into the water, and it once again begins a methodical sweep. Back in California, [the team] will use the thousands of captured images, plus hundreds of photos taken by human divers, to build a 3-D reconstruction of the plane.
BrentProp believes there are at least 8 more US planes hidden in this corner of the ocean, and using their autonomous underwater vehicle called "Remus," they intend to find the rest. It"s an undersea mission that"s been a long time coming. You can hop over to Popular Science for the all the details of the awesome project. [Popular Science] (来源：新华国际)
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