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landing speed

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noun
the minimum air speed at which an aircraft lands safely
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How to use landing speed in a sentence

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

    The Scarlet Lake Mystery|Harold Leland Goodwin
  • It came flying down with incredible clumsiness, making an uproar out of all proportion to its landing speed.

    Space Platform|Murray Leinster
  • 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.

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