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gear-up landings

gear-up landings is the plural of gear-up landing.

Meaning of gear-up landing

Noun

gear-up landing (plural gear-up landings)

  1. A landing of an aircraft with the landing gear retracted due to the pilot(s) forgetting to extend the gear or to take some other action necessary for the gear to deploy.
    • The gear warning horn sounds if any of the gear are not down and locked when the throttle is pulled back to idle with the flaps down, providing a valuable protection against a gear-up landing.

Questions about gear-up landings

What is gear-up landings the plural of?
Gear-up landings is the plural of gear-up landing.

Words near gear-up landings in the dictionary

  1. gear trains
  2. gear up
  3. gear wheel
  4. gear wheels
  5. gear-up landing
  6. gear-up landings
  7. gear-wheel
  8. gear-wheels
  9. gearbox
  10. gearboxed
  11. gearboxes

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