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wielbak

English translation: wheel compartment

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Dutch term or phrase:wielbak
English translation:wheel compartment
Entered by: AllisonK (X)

09:27 Nov 27, 2003
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering
Dutch term or phrase: wielbak
"het enige wat we weten over de man is dat hij in de wielbak van een vliegtuig is gestorven'

verder heb ik geen context over vliegtuigen/onderdelen.
sammi
Local time: 09:20
wheel compartment
Explanation:
... But when the airplane descended, I warmed up ... Last week, two boys believed to be as
young as 12 were found dead in the wheel compartment of a Ghana Airways DC-10 ...
64.21.33.164/CNews/y02/dec02/11e4.htm - 23k
... Sudden decision led to cold, dangerous ride in airplane's wheel bay by ... warding off
subfreezing temperatures and minimal oxygen in the wheel compartment of the ...
64.21.33.164/CNews/y02/dec02/16e5.htm - 24k
... Two youths found dead in airplane wheel compartment Two boys have been
found dead in the undercarriage of a plane at Heathrow Airport. ...
www.killarney.ie/news/archives/05_12_02_national.html - 19k
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AllisonK (X)
Netherlands
Local time: 09:20
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2wheel compartment
AllisonK (X)
5 +1wheel well
Jacques Wolse
4 +1wheel compartment
Chris Hopley


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
wheel compartment


Explanation:
... But when the airplane descended, I warmed up ... Last week, two boys believed to be as
young as 12 were found dead in the wheel compartment of a Ghana Airways DC-10 ...
64.21.33.164/CNews/y02/dec02/11e4.htm - 23k
... Sudden decision led to cold, dangerous ride in airplane's wheel bay by ... warding off
subfreezing temperatures and minimal oxygen in the wheel compartment of the ...
64.21.33.164/CNews/y02/dec02/16e5.htm - 24k
... Two youths found dead in airplane wheel compartment Two boys have been
found dead in the undercarriage of a plane at Heathrow Airport. ...
www.killarney.ie/news/archives/05_12_02_national.html - 19k

AllisonK (X)
Netherlands
Local time: 09:20
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 541

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Kate Hudson (X)
1 min
  -> thanks Kate - still gotta make those cookies.....
agree  Chris Hopley: too fast for me :-)
2 mins
  -> ah, what's 2 minutes in a human life..........;)
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
wheel compartment


Explanation:
-> "Two Ghanaian boys aged 12 and 14 have been found dead in the undercarriage well of an aeroplane at Heathrow airport ... The two were found by a ground engineer huddled together in the wheel compartment of a Ghana Airways DC-10"
http://212.187.153.20/print/0,3858,4562014-103690,00.html

-> "Earlier in December, a stowaway arrived in Montreal from Cuba in the wheel compartment of a Cubana Airlines DC-10 jetliner. Somehow, Victor Alverez, 24, survived the four-hour flight, huddled perilously close to the landing gear, barely able to breathe, in temperatures at 35,000 feet of minus 40 degrees (where Celsius and Fahrenheit coincide)."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/stowaway.html


    Reference: http://212.187.153.20/print/0,3858,4562014-103690,00.html
    Reference: http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/stowaway.html
Chris Hopley
Netherlands
Local time: 09:20
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 2117

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AllisonK (X): geez, even one hit in common! ;)
3 mins
  -> Awful, isn't it? I'll try and at least be original next time I duplicate answers... :-]
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
wheel well


Explanation:
Also wheel-well.
Official aeronautical term.
See the hits you get when entering 'aircraft wheel well' in Google (including texts about stowaways...)

Jacques Wolse
Local time: 09:20
Native speaker of: Dutch
PRO pts in pair: 56

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllisonK (X): yes, this may be the official term, but may be too official for the context...
1 min
agree  Chris Hopley: ook prima
9 mins
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