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Old February 27, 2012, 01:21 PM
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PBY:a designation for an airplane built by Consolidated Aircraft Company and used by the United States Navy during World War II (1939–1945). (PB stands for patrol boat and Y is a designation used for the Consolidated Aircraft Company.) The plane was a large, slow seaplane with a waterproof boatlike body that allowed it to float on and take off from the water. It was equipped with bombs, torpedoes and machine guns and was used for long-range sea patrols, rescue missions, etc.

For sake of simplicity, if I say in Spanish "un PBY, (un tipo de hidroavi
ón patrulla)" would that work as a translation?
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Para máxima simplicidad yo diría: "Un hidroavión PBY". Con esto es suficiente para identificarlo. Se pueden añadir datos: "Un hidroavión patrulla americano PBY" o lo que quieras.

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For sake of simplicity, if I say in Spanish "un PBY, (un tipo de hidroavión patrulla)" would that work as a translation?
Yes it would work prefecty as a translation syntesis of all the text above.

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Thank you Micho! Appreciated. (Your simplification "un hidroavión PBY" is probably best.)
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