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• Landing — is the last part of a flight, where a flying animal, aircraft, or spacecraft returns to the ground. When the flying object returns to water, the process is called alighting, although it is commonly called landing and touchdown as well. A normal… …   Wikipedia

• Landing gear extender — Landing gear extenders are devices used on conventional or tailwheel equipped aircraft. They move the wheels forward of the landing gear leg by 2 3 inches (5 8 cm).The installation of landing gear extenders is almost always the result of… …   Wikipedia

• Landing Signal Officer — Landing Signal Officers (LSOs) are naval aviators specially trained to control the approach and landings of airplanes aboard aircraft carriers. Paddles In the U.S. Navy, aircraft carrier operations began with USS Langley (CV 1) in 1922. Langley s …   Wikipedia

• landing gear — land ing gear , n. The wheels and attached structures under an airplane that support it and allow it to move when on the ground; also, the floats or pontoons of an amphibious airplane together with their supporting structures. Landing gear may be …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• landing gear — n [U] an aircraft s wheels and other parts that support them = ↑undercarriage …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• landing gear — landing ,gear noun uncount the equipment and wheels that an airplane uses when it lands …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• landing gear — n. the system of related parts on an aircraft or spacecraft used for support or mobility on land or water, including wheels, pontoons, shock absorbers, etc …   English World dictionary

• landing gear — N UNCOUNT The landing gear of an aircraft is its wheels and the structures that support the wheels …   English dictionary

• landing gear — noun an undercarriage that supports the weight of the plane when it is on the ground • Hypernyms: ↑undercarriage • Hyponyms: ↑landing skid • Part Holonyms: ↑airplane, ↑aeroplane, ↑plane …   Useful english dictionary

• landing gear position indicator — A system available on all aircraft with retractable landing gear to indicate the position of the landing gear. The most common indication is a set of three green lights to indicate all three wheels are down and locked and three red lights to show …   Aviation dictionary

• landing — Land Land, n. [AS. land, lond; akin to D., G., Icel., Sw., Dan., and Goth. land. ] 1. The solid part of the surface of the earth; opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English