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airplane landing

n. landing an aircraft [syn: aircraft landing]

Usage examples of "airplane landing".

Brigadier General Fleming Pickering, USMCR, wishing he had thought to wear his raincoat, stood in the cold drizzle until he was sure the four-engine airplane landing was indeed the Bataan.

The sun was shining (it shined just about all the time here), and the bay was blue, and the airplane landing, Ernie thought, was beautiful.

In the morning British troops came to investigate Arab complaints that they had heard an airplane landing in the area.

So you had programmers studying ant swarming, or termite mounding, or bee dancing, in order to write programs to control airplane landing schedules, or package routing, or language translation.

I was contemplating my next foray into felonious fant~sy when I heard what sounded like an airplane landing in the alley.

The lights were on and the bike glowed like a city seen from an airplane landing.