After separation and landing, the lander had a mass of about and the orbiter The total launch mass was of which were propellant and attitude control gas.

Due to a problem in the operation of one of the on-board systems ( attitude control or retro-rockets ) the landing probe separated prematurely ( 4 hours before encounter ) and missed the planet by 1300 km.

From the moment of landing on their feet their whole attitude expressed devouring curiosity and a pig-headed disregard for their own safety.

The term rotation is used because the aircraft pivots around the axis of its main landing gear while still on the ground, usually because of manipulation of the flight controls to make this change in aircraft attitude.

A tilt sensor measured pendulum motion during the descent and was also designed to indicate the probe's attitude after landing and show any motion due to waves.

Belyayev asked Leonov to check the craft's attitude, a move which caused the craft to overshoot its intended landing area by approximately 2, 000 km because of the extra time this took.

" The airspeed and attitude of the plane are adjusted for landing.

Factors such as crosswind where the pilot will use a crab landing or a slip landing will cause pilots to land slightly faster and sometimes with different aircraft attitude to ensure a safe landing.

When the pilot is instructed or decides to go around, the pilot will apply full power to the engine ( s ), adopt an appropriate climb attitude and airspeed, retract landing gear, retract flaps as necessary, follow the instructions of the air traffic controller ( in a controlled field ) and typically climb into the traffic pattern for another circuit if required.

The landing can be to both feet ; on one leg with the other extended in attitude or arabesque ; or down to one knee, as at the end of a variation.

Just above the ground he corrected the machine ’ s attitude, pulled off a perfect landing and came to a halt just short of the waters of the Warnow.

---- When the ship had stablilized in the proper attitude for firing, Lovell would deploy the LEM's landing gear, extending its four spidery legs to get them out of the way of the descent engine.

* Autopilot and Flight computer autopilot can be used to execute 15 maneuvers of different complexities ( ranging from attitude / orientation control to automatic landing ).

:: The Board determines the probable cause of this accident was premature descent below landing minimums which was the result of preoccupation of the crew on particular aspects of the aircraft and its environment to the neglect of essential flight instrument references for attitude and height above the approach surface.

The nose can be drooped to one of two positions-5 degrees ( for taxiing and for take-off ), and the fully drooped 12. 5 degree position ( used during landing, when the nose-high attitude of Concorde requires this lower nose position so the pilots can see the approaching runway ).

Antarctica has 20 airports, but there are no developed public-access airports or landing facilities.

Agrippina landing at Brundisium with the ashes of Germanicus, ( 1768, Benjamin West, oil on canvas ). In art, Agrippina has served as a symbol of marital devotion and fidelity.

* The reception of Beowulf by the coast guard with drawn spear and a challenge but the situation is quickly smoothed over by an explanation of why the ship has arrived parallels Aeneas ' landing and very similar reception with drawn spear by Pallas in book VIII of the Aeneid.

These include two 135 tonne Yunnan-class landing craft, which are able to carry and launch smaller craft for troop insertions. Some effort has been made to assess equipment needs to bring L ' Audacieux P103 and Bakassi P104 to an effective combat status.

Stanisław Lem has also studied the same idea in his novel The Invincible ( 1964 ), in which the crew of a spacecraft landing on a distant planet finds non-biological life-form, which is the product of long, possibly of millions of years of mechanical evolution.

Godzilla has a final battle with the Super X, eventually damaging the aircraft and forcing it to make an emergency landing where he destroys it by toppling a building on it.

; High Bar: A 2. 8 cm thick steel or fiberglass bar raised 2. 5m above the landing area is all the gymnast has to hold onto as he performs giants ( revolutions around the bar ), release skills, twists, and changes of direction.

However, the court players may catch and touch the ball in the air within it as long as the player starts their jump outside the zone and releases the ball before they land ( landing inside the perimeter is allowed in this case as long as the ball has been released ).

Research at NASA's Ames Research Center has demonstrated that a robotic Dragon would be capable of a fully propulsive landing on the Martian surface.

An athlete does not benefit from quickly leaving the landing pad before the bar has fallen.

Somalia has 65 landing grounds.

This view has been supported in that the entire war includes the landing in Mysia ( and Telephus ' wounding ), Achilles's campaigns in the North Aegean and Telamonian Ajax's campaigns in Thrace and Phrygia.

Thailand has cable landing points in Satun, Petchaburi and Chonburi.

The Tupolev Tu-95 ' Bear ', a Soviet-era bomber, has large bulged landing gear nacelles behind the two inner engines, increasing the aircraft's overall cross section aft of the wing root.

* March 2 – NASA announces that the Mars rover MER-B ( Opportunity ) has confirmed that its landing area was once drenched in water.

* The Outward Urge by John Wyndham has the first successful landing on Venus in 2144.

The system has recently become so advanced that controllers can predict whether an aircraft will be delayed on landing before it even takes off ; that aircraft can then be delayed on the ground, rather than wasting expensive fuel waiting in the air.

New school skiing has grown so much that new ski companies were created, companies that strictly make twin-tip skis — skis that are designed for taking off and landing " fakie ", or " switch " ( backwards ) on jumps and rails.

A variable-incidence wing has an adjustable angle of incidence ( the angle between the wing and the fuselage ) in order to reduce landing and take-off distances.

Japan has provided support for a fish landing and processing plant in Roseau.

Internet usage in the country has been hampered by the inadequate fixed-line infrastructure and the high cost of international bandwidth, but this market sector has started to accelerate following the introduction of various kinds of broadband services including ADSL, cable modems, WiMAX wireless broadband and mobile data services, and then the landing of the first international submarine fibre optic cable in the country ( SEACOM ) in 2009.

Professor Ray Arvidson has been co-investigator of the Phoenix Rover robotic arm and chair of the Mars Exploration Rover landing site group.

This part has a large number of regulations to ensure airworthiness in areas such as structural loads, airframe, performance, stability, controllability, and safety mechanisms, how the seats must be constructed, oxygen and air pressurization systems, fire prevention, escape hatches, flight management procedures, flight control communications, emergency landing procedures, and other limitations, as well as testing of all the systems of the aircraft.

Israel has 30 airports with paved runways, 18 unpaved landing strips, and 3 heliports.

** Polnocny class landing ship 3

Helicopter pads are available at 27 stations ; runways at 15 locations are gravel, sea-ice, blue-ice, or compacted snow suitable for landing wheeled, fixed-wing aircraft ; of these, 1 is greater than 3 km in length, 6 are between 2 km and 3 km in length, 3 are between 1 km and 2 km in length, 3 are less than 1 km in length, and 2 are of unknown length ; snow surface skiways, limited to use by ski-equipped, fixed-wing aircraft, are available at another 15 locations ; of these, 4 are greater than 3 km in length, 3 are between 2 km and 3 km in length, 2 are between 1 km and 2 km in length, 2 are less than 1 km in length, and data is unavailable for the remaining 4.

# An aircraft should be “ in flight ” ( that is, according to Article 1, paragraph 3 of the Tokyo Convention, from the moment when power is applied for the purpose of take-off until the moment when the landing run ends );

* 1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.

The main parachute ( point I ) was deployed at 10, 000 ft ( 3 km ), further slowing the spacecraft in preparation for landing.

country code-95 ; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE 3 optical telecommunications submarine cable that provides links to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe ; satellite earth stations-2, Intelsat ( Indian Ocean ) and ShinSat ( 2007 )

International links include: landing points for the SEA-ME-WE-3 and SEA-ME-WE-4 submarine cable systems (* AMK ) that provide links to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe ; 3 Intelsat satellite earth stations ( 1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean ); 3 operational international gateway exchanges ( 2 at Karachi and 1 at Islamabad ); and microwave radio relay to neighboring countries.

Among the 41 vessel fleet were 2 frigates, 22 missile attack craft ( including 10 advanced Osa II missile boats ), 2 submarine chasers, 4 mine warfare vessels, 8 gunboats, 6 patrol craft, 4 missile corvettes ( on order ), 3 landing craft ( on order ), 1 torpedo recovery vessel and, as part of its coastal defence system, Sepal shore-to-sea missiles with a range of 300 kilometers

Because of technical problems with the thrust reverser sensors during the landing of TWA 881 at JFK, prior to flight 800 the ground-maintenance crew locked-out the thrust reverser for engine # 3 ( treated as a minimum equipment list item ).

The landing beaches were expanded further in 1972 allowing all 3 ferries to operate simultaneously.

* February 3 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.

UDT 1 and 3 provided personnel who went in ahead of the landing craft, scouting mud flats, marking low points in the channel, clearing fouled propellers, and searching for mines.

He advanced on Calabria and attempted a landing in Sicily ; but his main army was blocked at Reggio, and he retreated from Calabria entirely on 3 August.

The battle for Schmidt cost 6, 184 U. S. casualties — compared with about 3, 000 casualties suffered by the landing forces at Omaha Beach.

Lunokhod 3 ( vehicle 8ЕЛ № 205 ) was built for a Moon landing in 1977, but never flew to the Moon due to lack of launchers and funding.

* The space program of the People's Republic of China will attempt its first unmanned Moon landing with the Chang ' e 3 mission.

* 1926-33-Nicaragua ; The coup d ' état of General Emiliano Chamorro Vargas aroused revolutionary activities leading to the landing of U. S. Marines intermittently until January 3, 1933.

With help from Radio 1 breakfast show host Simon Mayo, who gave the song regular airplay and also used the chorus within a jingle, it became a hit, some 12 years after the song's original appearance in Life Of Brian, reaching number 3 in the UK charts and landing Idle a set on Top of the Pops in October 1991.