landing speed

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noun

the minimum air speed at which an aircraft lands safely

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Words nearby landing speed

landing gear, landing net, landing page, landing party, landing ship, landing speed, landing stage, landing strake, landing strip, landing-waiter, Landini

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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.
The Biography of a Rabbit|Roy Benson
Panic-stricken, she tried to right the plane, but she had not even throttled the engine down to a landing speed.
Linda Carlton's Island Adventure|Edith Lavell