vertical landing

She also tested the new concept of vertical landings, using Marine helicopters.

Operationally the aircraft therefore usually does a near vertical landing with some forward speed.

Agent Andross didn't emerge from his private room until they began their approach for a vertical landing.

Even the airbus hotels needed room to maneuver and make their vertical landings.

"If you're such an expert, maybe you could teach me that neat vertical landing, huh?"

B11 An experimental rocket makes a vertical landing.

Changing the angle of its engine blast, the transport eased in for a vertical landing.

A slightly different approach to vertical landing is to use an autogyro or helicopter rotor.

He had let the ship settle to a vertical landing in the space where other houses had been cleared away.

Then the choppers dispersed, rose into the air, cut the jets, and opened their blades for vertical landing.

The Marine version, which is designed for short takeoffs and vertical landings, was overweight by at least 3,000 pounds.

Vertical landing is an extremely important breakthrough - extreme, rapid reusability."

The destroyer was designed for vertical landing.

He stood beside the monster engines, oblivious to the waves of heat pouring from the vertical landing jets.

He was a pioneer of reusable vertical landing single-stage to orbit launch vehicles.

Transports and shuttles, with their vertical landing ability, could land in tighter spaces than starfighters.

As they were lowering themselves into position for a vertical landing, Kyle's right hand pulled out from the controls and smashed into his son's throat.

The lander will use variable thrusters to make a vertical landing on the surface near the Moon's equatorial region.

He also suspects that a change in technology, specifically planes capable of vertical landings and takeoffs, will help make a second airport unnecessary.

Midway between the base and the handsome complex, an opening in the forest seemed to offer a spot for a vertical landing and later takeoff.

Beneath the vessel, two and three-foot icicles hung from the end cones of the vertical landing jets.

Vertical landing jets shut down.

The lunar module calmly drifting down at a low angle to the surface of the moon, then burning its engines for a more vertical landing.

Long-stroke oleos were used to cushion vertical landings.

The DC-X was a vertical-takeoff and vertical landing vehicle.