landing lights
Example Sentences
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He used the helicopter’s landing lights to distract the enemy, buying time for the patrol team to head south and east toward a different extraction point he had identified.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2023
Mr. Taylor directed his wingman to fire his remaining rounds along the patrol team’s eastern flank while he fired along its western flank using his Cobra’s landing lights to draw the enemy’s attention.
From Washington Times • Sep. 1, 2023
Our neighboring planet is incredibly bright, as people have mistaken it for an airliner with landing lights on approach to an airport.
From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2022
One of the planes on the taxiway went so far as to turn on its landing lights as the Air Canada jet got closer.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2017
But they couldn’t see the planes, and the pilots couldn’t see the landing lights.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
