English translation of "appareil Alpha, Bravo faisant route au cap" - "Aircraft Alpha Bravo on heading..."

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161 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	appareil Alpha, Bravo faisant route au cap
Context:	Appareil Alpha, Bravo faisant route au cap zéro zéro huit degrés vous êtes en violation du
Keywords:	...territoire malasien. Je vous demande de vous poser immédiatement, sans quoi vous serez abattus sur le champ... Radio message from a fighter jet to a helicopter that is trying to escape.

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161 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL wrote:

Aircraft Alpha Bravo on heading...

My comment:

...zero zero eigh degrees...

This is certainly one aircraft with a two-letter call sign, not two aircraft. The comma, though illogical in English, is functioning in the same way as the separator comma between Christian names in reportage.

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161 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL wrote:

Flight Alpha, Bravo on heading zero zero eight degrees, you are in violation of

My comment:

Alpha is one aircraft and Bravo is the other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlphaFlight

http://www.witsflyingclub.co.za/help/alphabet.asp

But unless this is Marvel, who knows?

161 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL wrote:

Alpha Bravo aircraft heading zero zero eight degrees

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161 months ago

Claude Le Frapper wrote:

Alpha Bravo aircraft heading zero zero eight degrees

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