Landing on a dime

Landing on a dime
 

In order to help pilots 'land the airplane on a dime' - which means putting it on the exact spot intended...

Is there a Spanish expression for "landing on a dime".

Could it just be translated as the hyperbolic exaggeration that it is...

"Aterrizar en una moneda de diez centavos"...

(Now I know the guys from Sevilla may be exaggerated... but this one is kind of beyond the beyonds...) :rolleyes:

The more common phrase is 'stop on a dime', which can be translated as 'parar en seco'. ¿Qué te parece 'aterrizar en seco'?

"Aterrizar en seco" suena muy bien... no sé si los pilotos tendrán alguna expresion de jerga... pero "parar o aterrizar en seco" creo que me sirve para el contexto.

¡Gracias!

Pensándolo bien, 'landing on a dime' doesn't mean a sudden stop. It means putting the wheels down on a predetermined spot. This is called 'precision landing', or 'spot landing', and is translated as 'aterrizaje de precisión' or 'aterrizaje preciso'. The verb is 'aterrizar con precisión'.

¡Ah! ¡Eso tiene mucho sentido! ¡Gracias! :)

puedes dejarlo como "era capaz de aterrizar sobre una moneda", si no te sirve el "era capaz de aterrizar con gran precisión"
Saludos :D

o ¡Que agilidad!

And the inevitable BrE to land on a sixpence (a very small silver coin, 6 old pence worth 0.0000000000001 euros today)

Ja... está bien, "en una moneda" la verdad es que comunica la idea de la precisión... Me resulta curioso, porque a veces una traducción "literal" está "mal vista por los traductores profesionales", pero cuando es una metáfora o una hipérbole que no se ha fosilizado, la verdad es que puede funcionar también bien...

Gracias a todos... (and I take a sixpence may have more value for a collector than its 'actual' value... or is not even worth talking about it...?) :)

Probably quite common. Sixpence pieces were very common. Ten a penny in fact. :thinking::thinking: I do however have a silver threepence piece which is extremely rare. I am open to serious offers. :rolleyes:

:D
I take you are going to get deluged with requests... offers and bids... :)

I can only offer love :D :D :D :D

For only three pence ? :thinking::thinking: This conversation is going downhill fast. :rolleyes:

I can do an opera (The Threepenny Opera -Dreigroschenoper) :D :D

:D :D :D

(Yup! Probably it is easier to land on a three-penny track...) :rolleyes: :D