Diccionario Aeronautico

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JORGE GARCÍA DE LA CUESTA

AVIATION
TERMINOLOGY
TERMINOLOGÍA
AERONÁUTICA
ENGLISH-SPANISH
AERONAUTICAL DICTIONARY
DICCIONARIO AERONÁUTICO
ESPAÑOL-INGLÉS

EDITION

II

EDICIÓN

revised, updated
revisada, actualizada
2011

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EXPLANATORY NOTES / OBSERVACIONESStructure / Estructura
1. Headword / Lema.
2. Phrases. Derivatives. Compounds / Frases. Derivados. Formas compuestas.
3. Examples / Ejemplos.
1........... balloon. Globo aerostático, globo.
2........... ~ basket. Barquilla de globo.
........... ~ist. Aeronauta, piloto de globo.
........... ~-parachute. Globo-paracaídas.
3........... Hot-air ~. Globo de aire caliente.
Symbols: (~) stands for theheadword which in bold begins every entry; (*) denotes pilot transmission.
Signos: (~) representa el lema que en negrita encabeza cada artículo; (*) indica transmisión de piloto.
I am declaring emergency. Declaro emergencia.*
Solicito médico y ambulancia. Request doctor and ambulance.*
In italics are included not only aeronautical phraseologies, but colloquial, dated, informal or rare terms,as well as
foreign expressions and incorrect although usual vocables.
En cursiva se incluyen no sólo fraseología aeronáutica, sino términos coloquiales, anticuados, no oficiales o poco
frecuentes, así como extranjerismos y vocablos incorrectos pero de uso generalizado.
expedite descent. Acelere descenso.
flash ident. Responda identificación.
jaloppy. Cacharro, avión destartalado.
ship.Aeroplano.
Abbreviations, acronyms and initials appear in their appropriate place, according to alphabetical sequence.
Abreviaturas, acrónimos y siglas figuran en el lugar que alfabéticamente les corresponde.
Headwords are normally made up of single terms, although sometimes they are sentences, acronyms or initials,
which can be looked up directly or at the entry corresponding to some of theircomponent words.
Los lemas están normalmente formados por vocablos simples, aunque en ocasiones son frases, acrónimos o siglas,
que pueden consultarse directamente o en la entrada correspondiente a alguna de sus palabras componentes.
Normal arrangement in Spanish of different parts of speech: noun; adjective; verb.
Orden normal de las diversas partes de la oración, en español: sustantivo;adjetivo; verbo.
damp. Humedad; húmedo; humedecer(se).
The verb category (-vb) is showed only in the second part, Español-Inglés.
La categoría de verbo (-vb) se indica solamente en la segunda parte, Español-Inglés.
volar -vb. Fly; aviate.

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SOMETHING LIKE A PREFACE

There was a faraway planet, Tero, with many countries and nations,cultures, traditions… languages
and dialects. Such linguistic diversity was really positive, but most Terans only spoke their mother
tongue and countries did not understand each other.
Leaders and dealers from all over the planet communicated in the language of the most powerful
State, but even the privileged who spoke it fluently were always at a disadvantage in relation to the
natives.
Everyfew centuries, with the fall of an empire, another great power arose with a new hegemonic
language, as transient and inadequate as the previous ones. History repeated itself over and over, no
national language was able to become a real and definitive universal language.
Some linguists and philosophers maintained that, besides numbers, time, currency… and music, the
planet needed a common andneutral language which would end that unfair dominant-weak
relationship, reinforcing the identity of all national, ethnic, regional and minority languages… those
idealists thought, while they always encountered the majority’s indifference, the opposition of the
privileged ones and the refusal of the political-economic empire.
After years of investigation, one of those wise men designed an...