| 单词 | pancake descent |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspancake descent 8. Aeronautics. A vertical descent made by an aircraft in a level position (e.g. as a result of a stall); spec. (more fully pancake descent, pancake landing) a landing in which an aircraft drops vertically after having levelled out close to the ground. Cf. pancake v. 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > landing > emergency > with undercarriage retracted pancake1912 pancaking1912 belly flop1938 belly-landing1939 1912 Aero Mar. 66/1 Pride cometh before a pancake. 1913 C. Mellor Airman 25 Landings must be ‘normal’—not of the ‘pancake’ order. 1914 W. J. Claxton Mastery of Air xlviii. 249 It is considered faulty piloting to make a pancake descent where there is ample landing space. 1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 57/2 Nothing better could be expected than a ‘pancake’ landing which would destroy the undercarriage without seriously injuring the crew. 1991 A. Hayward Phantom Unmasked (1992) (BNC) 3 Fortunately he managed to make a ‘pancake’ landing on the water and..was rescued by a destroyer. < as lemmas |
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