Sentence examples for touchdown points from inspiring English sources

That meant that coastal areas near touchdown points for Marine One, the presidential helicopter, demanded extra inspection.

The obtained spectral information will also provide significant information for selecting Hayabusa2's touchdown points.

Such information will be used for choosing the touchdown points for sampling and also for investigating the distribution of the materials similar to the returned samples on Ryugu.

Those don't normally co-exist with large quantities of ice not far from the surface, so that has helped narrow the potential touchdown points to just a handful.

The flare segment must perform soft landings within a desired range of touchdown points on the runway in the presence of parametric uncertainties, strong wind turbulence and ground effects.

Therefore, the designed guidance law is flexible enough to target different touchdown points on the runway and is capable of dealing with large initial condition errors resulted from the previous flight phase.

They therefore tried to touch down before the normal touchdown point, investigators said.

In 1883 he secured the adoption of a scale of numerical values for scoring by touchdown, point after touchdown, field goal, and safety.

The touchdown point, it is evident in hindsight, was much farther away than the runway, but that was not clear at the time, and, he said, "I couldn't afford to be wrong".

The crew members compared that number to a chart showing the runway length; they did not realize that the computer's number included the "air run" distance from the end of the runway to the normal touchdown point.

Some pilots and experts have noted that from the point the engines quit, the runways of La Guardia may have been closer than the eventual touchdown point on the Hudson, but that it may have been impossible for the crew to know that at the time.