landing lights

Example Sentences

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He 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. 5, 2023

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

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

So we had to figure out a way to do that,” especially for the powerful, almost blinding landing lights of the “mother ship.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2016

But they couldn’t see the planes, and the pilots couldn’t see the landing lights.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin