Now, that 8217;s not quite true. Delaware has a number of airfields, including Dover Air Force Base (DOV) and New Castle Airport (ILG). New Castle Airport is the only one that might qualify as a commercial airport, but after Skybus Airlines shut down in 2008, the airport had no airlines serving it.
好吧，这不完全是真的。特拉华州有许多机场，包括多佛空军基地和纽卡斯尔机场。纽卡斯尔机场是特拉华州唯一一个也许够得上商业机场这一名号的机场，但随着天空巴士航空公司于2008年关闭，这个机场再也没有任何航空公司的航班降落。
Least flown-over state
被飞越最少的州
The least flown-over state is Hawaii, which makes sense. It consists of tiny islands in the middle of the world 8217;s biggest ocean; you have to try pretty hard to hit it.
被飞越次数最少的州是夏威夷。它由世界上最大的海洋中的一些小岛组成，要想飞过它需要花一点力气。
Of the 49 non-island states, the least flown-over state is California. This came as a surprise to me, since California is long and skinny, and it seems like a lot of flights over the Pacific would need to pass over it.
在美国本土的49个州中，被飞越次数最少的州是加利福尼亚州。这个结果同样出乎我的意料，因为加利福尼亚又瘦又长，看上去似乎许多跨越太平洋的航班都会从它上方经过。
However, since jet-fuel-laden planes were used as weapons on 9/11, the FAA has tried to limit the number of unnecessarily fuel-heavy flights crossing the US, so most international travelers who might otherwise travel over California instead take a connecting flight from one of the airports there.
但由于恐怖分子在“9•11”袭击中使用了载有航空燃油的大型客机，因而美国联邦航空局（FAA）已经尝试限制携带不必要重量燃油飞越美国的客机数量，所以大多数本可以飞过加州的外国入境者只能转而在加州转机。
Fly-under states
被飞越州
Lastly, let 8217;s answer a slightly stranger question: What is the most flown-under state? That is, what state has the most flights on the opposite side of the Earth pass directly under its territory?
最后我们来看一个略显奇怪的问题：哪个州是飞越飞机次数最多的州？换言之，哪个州的正“底下”——也就是地球的另一面正对的位置——飞过的飞机次数最多？
The answer turns out to be Hawaii.
答案是夏威夷。
The reason such a tiny state wins in this category is that most of the US is opposite the Indian Ocean, which has very few commercial flights over it. Hawaii, on the other hand, is opposite Botswana in Central Africa. Africa doesn 8217;t have a high volume of flights over it compared to most other continents, but it 8217;s enough to win Hawaii the top spot.
这么小的一个州获胜的原因之一是，地球另一边正对着美国本土的是印度洋，而印度洋上空很少会有商业航班经过。同时中非的博茨瓦纳也差不多在夏威夷的对面，虽然非洲相比于其他大洲来说航班数量也较少，但这已经足够让夏威夷荣获桂冠了。