RASANTE

English translation: (to go) hedge-hopping

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Portuguese term or phrase:RASANTE
English translation:(to go) hedge-hopping
Entered by: Claudio Mazotti

16:30 Oct 21, 2006
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Aerospace / Aviation / Space / flying; airplane
Portuguese term or phrase: RASANTE
O bimotor deu um RASANTE pela cidade.

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(to go) hedge-hopping
Explanation:
voo rasante (hedge hopping, treetop level). (various references) ... обозлить (make hopping mad), бреющий полет (grass-cutting, hedge hopping, hedgehop). ...
www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/hopping

Both were extremely talented model airplane engineers. ... They went "hedge-hopping," in their planes. Not at all surprising for Denny who was one of the ...
www.sedonalegendhelenfrye.com/page31.html

hedge-hopping - flying so low that the aircraft appears to hop over the hedges Herc - Bristol Hercules sleeve valve air cooled radial engine ...
www.associations.rafinfo.org.uk/code_names.htm
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Claudio Mazotti
Brazil
Grading comment
Thank you so much, Cláudio. That was a big help!
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3 +2(to go) hedge-hopping
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(to go) hedge-hopping


Explanation:
voo rasante (hedge hopping, treetop level). (various references) ... обозлить (make hopping mad), бреющий полет (grass-cutting, hedge hopping, hedgehop). ...
www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/hopping

Both were extremely talented model airplane engineers. ... They went "hedge-hopping," in their planes. Not at all surprising for Denny who was one of the ...
www.sedonalegendhelenfrye.com/page31.html

hedge-hopping - flying so low that the aircraft appears to hop over the hedges Herc - Bristol Hercules sleeve valve air cooled radial engine ...
www.associations.rafinfo.org.uk/code_names.htm


Claudio Mazotti
Brazil
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
Thank you so much, Cláudio. That was a big help!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  lexical: Nice one, klausinSP, describes it perfectly!
59 mins
  -> tks a lot!!!

agree  Carla G..: just like the grasshoppers ;)
1 hr
  -> tks a lot!!!
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