WordNet
n. a landing in which all three wheels of the aircraft touch the ground at the same time
Usage examples of "three-point landing".
Takeoff and landing were different, too, a tail dragger requiring more of a three-point landing.
Back at Rota, Hunter landed directly behind Jones, bringing the F-16 in for a flawless three-point landing.
After watching the F-lll set down to a perfect, three-point landing, he slowed his F-16, and lowered its gear.
I moved the stick back gradually to prevent her sinking and stalled into a perfect three-point landing, touching the ground so gently that I hardly felt a thing.
He made a three-point landing, his ass and both bootheels, but the captured sub-machine gun was pointed out the airlock where Sienkiewicz stood.
Then, gunning the motor in spurts to keep up flying speed he brought the ship to a perfect three-point landing.
He made a three-point landing on a meadow, the wheels and the tail skid touching at the same time, taxied to near the fence, and turned off the engine.
The Jenny straightened out just before her wheels touched, and she made a perfect three-point landing.
The pilot brought it in over the big radar antenna on the laboratory roof, then dropped onto the runway for a three-point landing opposite the orchard.
Even had the landing been a perfect three-point landing, the ship was doomed, and they all were aware of the fact.
All in all, Mallory reflected, an almost perfect three-point landing compared to the last time they had come to Navarone by boat, when their Greek caique, caught in the teeth of a giant storm, had been battered to pieces against the jaggedly vertical -- and supposedly unclimbable -- South Cliff of Navarone.
Lightly it descended till its rear skids touched and finally its front, in a perfect, three-point landing.
He brought ship down hi a flawless three-point landing, and he |d Paul Metaxas strolled back to the cabin.
Alex heard Stoke say in his headphones, and he eased the little seaplane in over the treetops and dropped in for a three-point landing.
The P38 touched down in a perfect three-point landing-a greaser, Ann thought-then turned off the runway.