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landing
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Landing is the arrival of an aircraft or spacecraft to the ground. Landing may also refer to: Landing, New Jersey , an unincorporated area in Roxbury Township Landing Creek (New Jersey) , a tributary of the Mullica River in southern New Jersey Landing Creek ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 corridor 2 coming to earth, as of an airplane or any descending object 3 a place on a shoreline where a boat lands 4 The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another. vb. (present participle of ...
Usage examples of landing.
She slung her Uzi over her shoulder then abseiled down, landing silently on the floor below.
All they knew they learned from aerograms, one from Admiral Durenne off the Isle of Wight saying that the Portsmouth forts had been silenced and the Fleet action had begun, and another from the Commodore of the squadron off Folkestone saying that all was going well, and the landing would shortly be effected: and thus they fully expected to have the three towns and the entrance to the Thames at their mercy by the following day.
He noted distances from friendly forts, fuel supplies, possible landing areas and traced the known route of the escaping Afghanis to the last known point nearly half-way along the Khyber.
The bomb aimer was supposed to tome up on to the main flight-deck for the landing but I always stayed down in the nose in case the pilot needed any last-minute guidance.
Should the weather deteriorate sufficiently to endanger our return flight we have been ordered to make a landing on the airfield near the town of Kalinin.
And though a landing aboard the carrier at night in bad weather was far and above the most challenging feat of airmanship one could attempt, making the same approach on a fixed, unmoving airfield posed a different kind of threat--just as deadly, but far more subtle.
Suddenly Mandel and Akela were thrust back by an invisible force, both landing on their backsides, sprawled on the lawn.
It spun and bucked, alighting on stiffened legs, and Hilliard took flight, landing flat in a muddy puddle a full yard away.
There are to be no interruptions or discussions about anything other than the operation and safety of the flight from takeoff until 10,000-feet altitude, and again from 10,000 feet down until landing.
If Sardinia were chosen, he could probably be ready by October, but he did not expect to be able to invade the mainland of Italy before November, and by then the weather might be too bad for amphibious landings.
Committee of Arrangements of the New England Society respectfully invite you to be present at the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Society, and the two hundred and sixtieth of the landing of the Pilgrims at Metropolitan Concert Hall.
I hoped, under cover of that mistake, to escape one or the other, but I find that each claims its day to be the genuine anniversary of the landing of their Fathers on Plymouth Rock.
They coasted in toward the wharf between the two landing craft, and Aragon threw the lines up to the waiting soldiers.
By now she would be landing on Travancore, to face not a Simmie Artefact but the real Morgan Construct.
The Ataman had completed sea trials and aircraft landing operations in July of 1998, and been sent immediately to the Pacific Ocean Fleet.