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Controlled crashing that everyone applauds when it goes well enough.
means The act of coming down to rest after flight or a fall, or the flat resting-place where a flight of stairs pauses or ends.
from From the verb "land," itself from Old English "land" — earth, ground, the solid stuff you eventually meet again. The "-ing" makes it the act of meeting that ground, whether you're a ship nosing toward shore, a plane easing onto a runway, or a foot finding the broad step that interrupts a staircase. That last sense — the stair landing — borrows the same idea: a small patch of level ground you arrive at mid-climb, a place to land before going on.
- hardest part
- Most plane accidents happen during approach and landing
- pilot slang
- Any landing you walk away from counts as good
- the moon one
- Apollo 11 touched down with seconds of fuel left
- architecture
- The flat spot between stairs is also a landing
- physics trick
- Cats almost always twist to land feet-first
apollo 11 moon landing — neil armstrong and buzz aldrin landed on the moon july 20 1969
d-day normandy landing — allied forces landed on beaches of normandy france june 6 1944
hudson river landing — us airways flight 1549 emergency landing on hudson river new york january 15 2009