Sentence examples for aircraft touchdown from inspiring English sources

This paper proposes a solution to estimate all possible aircraft touchdown attitudes and control inputs based on flight dynamics simulations and Monte Carlo evaluation.

Called the instrument landing system, it was switched on for airline service in 1947, and guided an aircraft to touchdown on a runway.

The flight attitudes and control inputs of aircraft during touchdown can significantly influence the landing impacts.

The investigation further revealed that there was no technical malfunction on the aircraft prior to touchdown.

As a result, upon touchdown the aircraft broke apart, rolled over and caught fire.

Right before touchdown, the aircraft began a downward phugoid and veered right.

Upon touchdown, the aircraft was reassembled before undergoing another round of testing prior to the first flight.

Analysis of the accident revealed that had the pilot "deployed détente reverse thrust and applied maximum manual braking at touchdown", the aircraft could have been stopped within the paved overrun area of the runway.

Results show that the controllers are able to accurately land the aircraft within 0.5m of the intended touchdown point, and that the amount of lateral deviation on the runway can be minimised when controller sequencing is effectively used to align the landing gear with the direction of travel on the runway.

At airfields where aircraft operate in very poor visibility, touchdown-zone lighting is provided over the first 900 metres (3,000 feet) from the runway threshold.

The second was a BAE Jetstream 31 SX-SKY aircraft whose right main landing gear failed on touchdown.