For another, on each landing strut there had been mounted a rocket-firing mechanism.

Some of the sturdy hydraulic landing struts were partially bent and others broke off like matchsticks.

A robot was replacing a broken landing strut, fusing it smoothly in place with some process that made no glow of heat.

What you're lighting up now looks like it might be the descent ladder and what's left of a landing strut.

Even at the few-hundred-meter distance, he could see that the two remaining landing struts were crushed under the weight of the vessel.

One of the pod's landing struts had buckled.

He wedged himself inside the port-side landing strut, hoping it might limit to six the number of people who were about to kill him.

Letting his pistol lead the way, he crept away from the landing strut.

The creature lifted its head and looked at them with wide green eyes, then it stood and rubbed up against the landing strut.

The nearest landing strut of the Kublai Khan was about 100 yards distant from me.