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atitude de giro

English translation: Roll Attitude

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Portuguese term or phrase:atitude de giro
English translation:Roll Attitude
Entered by: judith ryan

00:00 May 29, 2010
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Aerospace / Aviation / Space
Portuguese term or phrase: atitude de giro
In a description of a helicopter that rolled over:

o destravamento do coletivo já seria suficiente para induzir uma atitude de giro à esquerda na aeronave

thanks!
judith ryan
Brazil
Local time: 17:38
Roll Attitude
Explanation:
It has to do with "how much" an aircraft (fixed wing or not) is rolling in one direction.

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Note added at 39 mins (2010-05-29 00:39:41 GMT)
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EDIT:

Just to make things a bit clearer, an aircraft can roll, yaw or pitch.

When it rolls, it turns on its longitudinal axis. When it pitches, it goes up or down. When it yaws, it turns left or right on a perpendicular axis to the wings (if it's a fixed wing aircraft) or main rotor (helicopter).
Selected response from:

Ricardo Horta
Local time: 21:38
Grading comment
Thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3Roll Attitude
Ricardo Horta
5...a left turn attitude..
Spiridon
4(aircraft) spin attitude
Marlene Curtis
4cause the aircraft to spin to the left
Douglas Bissell
4 -1turning (over) action
R. Alex Jenkins
4 -1banking attitude
Luiza Modesto


  

Answers


29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
turning (over) action


Explanation:
i.e. an action that will enable the helicopter to be turned back over, onto it's 'feet'. HIH.

R. Alex Jenkins
Brazil
Local time: 17:38
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  coolbrowne: Sorry, but it's not "turning (over)" but rolling around the main rotor (vertical) axis
3 hrs
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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Roll Attitude


Explanation:
It has to do with "how much" an aircraft (fixed wing or not) is rolling in one direction.

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Note added at 39 mins (2010-05-29 00:39:41 GMT)
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EDIT:

Just to make things a bit clearer, an aircraft can roll, yaw or pitch.

When it rolls, it turns on its longitudinal axis. When it pitches, it goes up or down. When it yaws, it turns left or right on a perpendicular axis to the wings (if it's a fixed wing aircraft) or main rotor (helicopter).

Ricardo Horta
Local time: 21:38
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  coolbrowne: Luckily this is the correct answer, since the "explanation" is wrong for a helicopter roll (not yaw) refers to rotation about the main rotor axis, which tends to be (close to) vertical. As it happens that’s what " giro (à esquerda)" means here.
3 hrs
  -> My doubt here is if the helicopter rolled on its side (as if the cyclic was pushed to the side) or around the main rotor (as if an anti-torque pedal was pressed)
agree  Jairo Payan
4 hrs
agree  Isabel Maria Almeida
8 hrs
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41 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
(aircraft) spin attitude


Explanation:

Portuguese-English Dictionary Data 1 - 2 visits - Apr 30
doença de aeronave：aircraft disease doença de altitude：altitude disease ...... giro de avião：airplane spin glaucoma absoluto：absolute glaucoma ...
www.geocities.jp/abelinternational/xE/PE_1.htm

Aerobatics - Spinning
An aft CoG condition is a common cause of reduced rudder effectiveness, as it reduces the nose down attitude of the aircraft in the spin thus shielding the ...
www.ausairpower.net/Aerobatics-Spinning.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(flight)

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 16:38
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 62
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
banking attitude


Explanation:
"to bank" = Tip laterally - "the pilot had to bank the aircraft"
http://www.google.com/search?q="banking attitude" aircraft&h...

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Note added at 2 hrs (2010-05-29 02:22:12 GMT)
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Bank attitude control is controlling the angle made by the lateral tilt of the rotor and the natural horizon, or, the movement of the helicopter about its longitudinal axis. After interpreting the helicopter’s bank instruments (attitude indicator, heading indicator, and turn indicator), cyclic control adjustments are made to attain the desired bank attitude.
http://www.americanflyers.net/aviationlibrary/instrument_fly...

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Note added at 11 hrs (2010-05-29 11:26:06 GMT)
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Hey Judith. If by "giro" the author means spinning around the vertical axis, then the correct term in English is yaw.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_dynamics

Roll and bank have the same meaning.

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Note added at 11 hrs (2010-05-29 11:28:02 GMT)
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The anti-torque pedals are located in the same position as the rudder pedals in a fixed-wing aircraft, and serve a similar purpose, namely to control the direction in which the nose of the aircraft is pointed. Application of the pedal in a given direction changes the pitch of the tail rotor blades, increasing or reducing the thrust produced by the tail rotor and causing the nose to yaw in the direction of the applied pedal. The pedals mechanically change the pitch of the tail rotor altering the amount of thrust produced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter#Flight_controls

Luiza Modesto
Brazil
Local time: 17:38
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  coolbrowne: Sorry, but it's not "banking" (which is more relevant for fixed-wing aircraft) but rolling arounf the main rotor (vertical) axis
1 hr
  -> You are wrong. Giro = yaw. Next time you disagree with someone, please post references. Thank you.
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
...a left turn attitude..


Explanation:
Giro in this context is a turn of the Helicopter

Spiridon
Brazil
Local time: 17:38
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 10
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18 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
cause the aircraft to spin to the left


Explanation:
Yaw would be Ok if it were an ocilating movement.

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Note added at 18 hrs (2010-05-29 18:41:07 GMT)
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The term "attitude" doesn't sound right here, though I admit it may be the correct technical term, but "spin attitude" and "roll attitude" get very few hits as aeronatical terms leaving me a bit dubious.

Douglas Bissell
Portugal
Local time: 21:38
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
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