- present participle of land.
landing
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The development of the spacecraft's landing legs was particularly difficult as gravity on Phobos is extremely low, according to Akinari Uehara, a Mitsubishi Electric engineer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
They showed significant deterioration in several measures, including elevator and aileron control, landing accuracy and vertical and lateral deviation on approach.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
In 2000, then-President Bill Clinton flew to India from Pakistan in an unmarked plane, landing shortly after the traditional Air Force One jet landed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
He pitched sideways, practically clearing the first set of steps and landing on the second flight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
He resumed galloping, crying out as he realized his monocle had flown off, landing somewhere in the mossy ground.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Phase I of NASA's Moon Base architecture plan, which is underway now through 2029, calls for more than twenty robotic landings.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
The D-Day landings join more than 50 French sites already inscribed on the list, alongside the spectacular Mont Saint Michel island in Normandy and the Palace of Versailles.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
In Robert Capa’s photograph of GIs on the USS Samuel Chase just before the D-Day landings, soldiers play craps with French banknotes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The rest of the company’s dreams are more moonshine than moon landings.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
Psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman studied one such situation in which, after good landings, pilots were praised, whereas after bumpy landings, they were berated.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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