landing speed

noun

The landing speed would be terrific—nearly a thousand miles an hour.

It came flying down with incredible clumsiness, making an uproar out of all proportion to its landing speed.

It was too late to pull up and go around again as I was down to landing speed.

Panic-stricken, she tried to right the plane, but she had not even throttled the engine down to a landing speed.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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