In the first century of flight, nothing stirred the soul quite like hearing the words "NEW WORLD RECORD!" While that term brings to mind images of sleek jets scorching the skies over barren deserts or rocket planes clawing for the heavens, the term 'World Record' bears closer examination. Technically, the first world record for powered flight was broken on December 17, 1903 when Wilbur and Orville made the second trip in their Flyer, but less than two decades later, aircraft performance had expanded to the point where true long-distance flight had became possible and once-unimaginable speed, altitude, distance, and endurance records were being set and broken with a regularity that fostered the public's awareness of this new and exciting age of flight.
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机译：在飞行的第一个世纪，没有什么比听到“ NEW WORLD RECORD”这个词更激荡了灵魂。虽然这个词使人联想起光滑的喷气机在贫瘠的沙漠或飞向天堂的火箭飞机上烧焦天空的图像，但“世界纪录”一词却值得进一步研究。从技术上讲，1903年12月17日，威伯和奥维尔乘飞机进行了第二次飞行，打破了首次动力飞行世界纪录，但是不到二十年后，飞机的性能就扩展到了真正的长途飞行成为现实定期记录并打破可能的，曾经难以想象的速度，高度，距离和耐力记录，以提高公众对这一新的令人兴奋的飞行时代的认识。
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