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    a water landing is, in the broadest sense, an aircraft landing on a body of water. Seaplanes, such as floatplanes and flying boats, land on water as...
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  • Landing on water could be: Water landing, any landing on water, also a euphemism for crash-landing into water in an aircraft Landing on Water, an album...
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  • Landing on Water is the 16th studio album by Neil Young. The album was released on July 21, 1986, by Geffen Records. The album represents a return to a...
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  • White Water Landing may refer to: White Water Landing (Cedar Point), a water ride at Cedar Point in Ohio White Water Landing (Dorney Park), a water ride...
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    Landing is the last part of a flight, where a flying animal, aircraft, or spacecraft returns to the ground. When the flying object returns to water, the...
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  • A landing is a water terminal for river transport lines, such as for ferries, steamboats or cargo ships. A notable example is the historic Public Landing...
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    videotape. This was one of very few large airliner water landings, and was the first hijacked water landing. Both the captain and first officer of the flight...
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    flooding after a water landing, but the pilots did not activate it. Sullenberger later said this would have made little difference since the water impact tore...
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    taxi without damage. Wheeled landing gear is the most common, with skis or floats needed to operate from snow/ice/water and skids for vertical operation...
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    A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made...
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    boat-like shape and made watertight for a water landing. Nungesser and Coli's plan was to make a water landing in New York, in front of the Statue of Liberty...
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    Splashdown is the method of landing a spacecraft by parachute in a body of water. It was used by crewed American space capsules prior to the Space Shuttle...
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    White Water Landing was a log flume water ride at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. It opened in 1982 and was located in the Frontier Town...
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    An emergency landing is a premature landing made by an aircraft in response to an emergency involving an imminent or ongoing threat to the safety and operation...
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    White Water Landing is a Shoot-the-Chutes ride at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom amusement park in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Manufactured by Arrow Dynamics...
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    needed] After several unsuccessful landing attempts, the aircraft's fuel was exhausted, and it made a forced water landing (known as ditching) in the Caribbean...
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  • hit the water, with no rotations. Competitors curl into a pike position (similar to a fetal position) just before entering the water, landing first with...
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    Cliff diving and its close relative tombstoning are specific to water landing (with diving usually implying a head-first entry and tombstoning implying...
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    This Wild." Maverick sits on the former site of White Water Landing. After White Water Landing closed on October 30, 2005, construction on Maverick began...
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    retards the descent of the capsule. On landing, an airbag system cushions the impact. In the event of a water landing the airbag acts as a flotation device...
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    boat-like shape and made watertight for a water landing. Nungesser and Coli's plan was to make a water landing in New York in front of the Statue of Liberty...
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  • losing contact with the runway or water surface during landing. Overspeed bounced landing (speed-induced bounced landing) – happens due occurrence of ground...
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    Aerodrome (redirect from Landing field)
    almost exclusively. A water aerodrome is an area of open water used regularly by seaplanes, floatplanes or amphibious aircraft for landing and taking off. In...
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    Igbo Landing (also called Ibo Landing, Ebo Landing, or Ebos Landing) is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. It...
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    Seaplane (redirect from Water Aircraft)
    seaplane is a powered fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water. Seaplanes are usually divided into two categories based on their...
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    II-era mechanized landing craft and tank landing ships, among other vessels. Brown-water navies are contrasted with seaworthy blue-water navies, which can...
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    atmosphere in a controlled manner and decelerate to a simulated over-water landing. On 28 June 2015, Falcon 9 Flight 19 carried a Dragon capsule on the...
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  • Michelle then begins to instruct the passengers on a possible crash landing or water landing and passes out life jackets. Gail Kornberg becomes hysterical when...
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    required to carry auto-inflating liferafts in case of an emergency water landing; offshore oil platforms also have liferafts. Ship-launched lifeboats...
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    involving a DC-9, dual engine flameout due to rain/ hail ingestion Water landing Emergency landing CFM56 engine design flaw – Engine flaw involving flameout after...
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