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French: barre de tractage

English translation: towbar







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French term or phrase:barre de tractage
English translation:towbar
Entered by:Hattie Hill
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2:24pm Mar 16, 2006Login or register (free) for more options.
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Tech/Engineering - Aerospace / Aviation / Space
French term or phrase: barre de tractage
This is from a aeronautics company specializing in ground support equipment

Nous continuons comme précédemment à répondre à vos demandes de cotation concernant les Civières Aéronautiques et leurs pièces détachées, **Barres de tractages**, Axle Jacks, les Consommables GSE en général.

traction bar? TIA!
Hattie Hill
United States
Clarification request(s) and response
Hattie Hill: 2:30pm Mar 16, 2006: I think it is exactly that. Thanks!

towbar
Explanation:
Well, quite a few Ghits suggest this may well be the term used --- assuming, that is, it does indeed refer to the 'bar' used for manouevring aircraft on the ground...?
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Tony M
France
Note from asker to answerer
thanks dusty!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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1 +6towbar
Tony M


  


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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +6
towbar

Explanation:
Well, quite a few Ghits suggest this may well be the term used --- assuming, that is, it does indeed refer to the 'bar' used for manouevring aircraft on the ground...?

Tony M
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 32
Note from asker to answerer
thanks dusty!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Bourth: Yes, even if tugs PUSH on the towbar to back a plane out of its stand.
6 mins
  -> Thanks, Alex! Absolutely... I always wondered why they didn't just put the 'plane into reverse gear --- but I suppose that would blow all the bits of seagulls and M*ch*l*ns back out of the engines again :-))

agree Nikki Scott-Despaigne
19 mins
  -> Thanks, Nikki!

agree SusanMurray: yes
23 mins
  -> Thanks, Susan!

agree Linda Young
24 mins
  -> Thanks, Linda!

agree MDI-IDM
3 hrs

agree Allan Jeffs: You've got my vote Tony! (-:
4 hrs
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