three-point landing
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The instruments can pick up a plane 15 to 35 miles away at 3,000 feet altitude and glide it in to a perfect three-point landing.
From Time Magazine Archive
While firemen, police and an ambulance assembled, he made several bungling attempts to land, then made a neat three-point landing before them all.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I became airborne and did a three-point landing," Moore says, and at one of those points, her right wrist, she broke two tiny bones: a metacarpal and the capitatum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. McCain came home later to find that a celestial visitor had made a three-point landing on his property, about 50 feet from where Mrs. Crum was standing.
From Time Magazine Archive
They made a three-point landing on the outskirts of Capetown, and she told Jem he hadn’t given her anything to say for ten minutes and she wasn’t going to play any more if he didn’t.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
