noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crash landing
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He was forced to make a crash-landing in the desert.
forced landing
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The plane had to make a forced landing in a field.
landing craft
landing gear
landing net
landing stage
landing strip
launch/landing/helicopter pad
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The hospital has built a helicopter pad.
soft landing
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Hopes for a soft landing have faded.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
emergency
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When we looked upwards again, we were amazed to see all three Fulmars still flying but firing emergency landing signals.
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The lake was acceptable for emergency landing , but not for take-off.
forced
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The pilot saw a field ahead and slightly left of the aircraft which he considered the best forced landing area.
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Callaghan had made a forced landing in a field, but they had seen him get out.
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He called the aircraft and was advised that both engines had flamed out and that a forced landing would be necessary.
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A turn to the left off the runway heading was made to bring the aircraft over land for the forced landing .
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Both engines failed due to bird ingestion and the aircraft made a forced landing in a field beyond the end of the runway.
safe
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If there is a possible area for a safe landing , use the brakes and get down into it.
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Beware of snow showers, because they can reduce visibility to a few yards, making a safe landing impossible.
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He should have Felt his way, tip-toe, his toes Tucked up under his nose For a safe landing .
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This is always dangerous because at that moment the glider has insufficient speed to allow for safe recovery and landing .
soft
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He had a soft landing on rough ground, and the foliage closed up again behind him.
■ NOUN
area
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The pilot saw a field ahead and slightly left of the aircraft which he considered the best forced landing area .
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So all was clear at the spaceport landing area .
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Choose a line feature along the landing area , with a mark or line across for the touch down point.
craft
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Group 4 was a floating reserve lying offshore in their landing craft until required to reinforce one of the other Groups.
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These constraints put out of the question any prospect of training fully fledged navigators for the thousands of landing craft crews.
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Jitters had been wounded early, and washed back to the landing craft .
crash
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He also survived five crash landings .
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An unnecessary signal: the radios had been dead since the crash landing .
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He says that wasn't bad for a crash landing .
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Read in studio A glider pilot has suffered a broken leg in a crash landing at an R-A-F base.
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This could and did result in nasty crash landings which could set the bombs off.
fee
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The flying club and bar offers a friendly greeting and place to pay the small landing fee .
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The club charges about £2.50 landing fee and sell aircraft fuel sweets and drinks.
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Eurocheques are accepted for fuel, but for landing fees it is strictly cash.
field
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Many field landing accidents occur because the initial decision to choose a field is left far too late.
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Your very first field landing could even turn out to be the most difficult field of your whole gliding career.
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Failure to accept that a field landing is necessary Be realistic about the chances of finding lift low down.
gear
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The Dowty group will provide twenty five million pounds worth of fuel systems and landing gear for the Tornado.
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They entered service with engraved foil type recorders, usually fitted in the landing gear bay.
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Boxes of new T-6 main landing gears and P-40 tail wheel assemblies were located and utilised in the mock-ups.
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The landing gear is also a touch fighter-style - tall, thin and hard.
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Was the landing gear up or down, or was one leg out of phase with the other?
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Fibreglass wheel pants were moulded and fitted to the landing gears and fake cowl flaps were attached to a re-worked AT-6 cowling.
moon
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As space technology, Bio2 is the most thrilling news since the moon landings .
net
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My chair and everything apart from the rod, landing net and loaf, are left up the bank.
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As the trout began to tire, I fumbled for the landing net .
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They got their rods and landing nets together and set off for home.
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Then I fetch my rod, landing net , loaf and rod-rest.
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Use a large landing net , somewhat larger than the size of fish you hope to catch.
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You need only one landing net , one keepnet, one set of scales, etc. if you fish close to each other.
pad
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It might have been a loading bay, or a landing pad for one-person fliers.
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The tennis courts act as helicopter landing pads .
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The health authority has recognised that and has sought an alternative and more convenient landing pad .
place
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Our shore controls continued to watch the original landing place .
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You'd need the landing place .
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Our brief but interesting tour completed we returned to the landing place , negotiating the slippery descent with caution.
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Viking was gently warped into the landing place where she was soon securely moored with her bow overhanging the rocks.
site
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Here is a gravitational field device to draw down orbiting objects on to a preprogrammed landing site .
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Direct sampling of the dust at various landing sites has indicated that it extends downwards for at least a metre or so.
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No thorough reconnaissance of the landing sites had been possible and maps had largely been taken from tourist guide books.
stage
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The new station is inconvenient to pedestrians, being a considerable walk from the ferries' landing stage .
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A short stroll leads to Menaggio's ferry landing stage .
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Sir Gregory, Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting.
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The hotel is set in a quiet back street with its own landing stage and a tiny pavement terrace.
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He built the Stone Quay both as a landing stage and promenade.
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Burkett's daughter would saddle up a horse and ride down the east shore of Derwent Water to the Lodore landing stage .
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It took half an hour before she came across it, moored by a small wooden landing stage .
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Around £300,000 a year has been spent patching up its ageing landing stage .
strip
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In December 1991 he often visited a nearby farm landing strip and talked to microlight owners and examined their aircraft.
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At Dungavel House, where the Duke of Hamilton had his residence, there was a private landing strip .
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The landing strip had been described to me in some detail.
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He has overshot the landing strip again.
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It is certainly an aircraft that requires a good sized landing strip as approaches have to be made fairly flat.
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It's used as a landing strip for emergencies only by the Luftwaffe.
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He was directed towards a glider landing strip , but he appears to have clipped a tree and then crashed on farmland.
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It dips its wings in acknowledgement of the landing strip , and circles, preparing to land.
window
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Mrs Blakey, recognizing that something was wrong, rapped sharply on the landing window and beckoned at the children.
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The landing window was cobalt-blue velvet, set with stars.
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Damned creatures - Harold had been leaving the landing window open again.
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He pulled open the landing window and edged out on to the ledge which ran around the block.
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Terry was standing at the landing window , Rose just retreating down the stairs.
■ VERB
force
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Bad weather can force an emergency landing or strong winds can blow them off course.
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In 15 of those flights, pilots were forced to make unscheduled landings .
make
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And it won't just be the pilots who are out to make the best landings .
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In 15 of those flights, pilots were forced to make unscheduled landings .
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He was very naturally scared stiff of using up all his remaining petrol and making a bad landing .
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Seven times the aircraft made unscheduled landings .
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Also unplanned but unforgettable is one of the B-17s making a one-wheeled landing .
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A person who is scared of ballooning will nearly always fly the aircraft on to the ground instead of making well held-off landings .
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Callaghan had made a forced landing in a field, but they had seen him get out.
reach
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She knew it before she had reached the landing .
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Then she retraced her steps, pausing, as she so often did, when she reached the landing .
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We reached the landing field towards dusk, landed, fitted on our parachutes and decided to jump in the failing light.
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On reaching a landing , she dithered.
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His head banged against the wall when they reached the landing , but for some reason it didn't hurt at all.
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As he reached the landing he paused, looking around at the five closed doors that faced him.
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As she reached the landing , she heard a sound in her room.
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I reach the landing and stand outside the door, key poised, listening.
stand
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She stood on the landing , maybe a minute, maybe half an hour, staring at the window.
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Trailing after her, Ellie stood on the landing , and listened.
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She stood on the landing , watching him as he went down the stairs and out by the side door.
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Terry was standing at the landing window, Rose just retreating down the stairs.
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He was standing on the landing at the top, face white.
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A door stood ajar on the landing and Carrie saw the bottom end of a silk-covered bed and drawn, silken curtains.
walk
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Jack walked back up to the landing and put his arm around his daughter.
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He Was stumbling as he walked across the landing .
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Carrie shuddered as she walked along the landing to one of the rear front doors.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the first landing of settlers in America