three-point landing
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The instruments can pick up a plane 15 to 35 miles away at 3,000 feet altitude and glide it in to a perfect three-point landing.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I became airborne and did a three-point landing," Moore says, and at one of those points, her right wrist, she broke two tiny bones: a metacarpal and the capitatum.
From Time Magazine Archive
The difference between a three-point landing and a one-point landing is that after the first you can fly the plane again.
From Time Magazine Archive
And indeed the three-point landing makes it into Mary and Rhoda, the long-awaited--if ultimately disappointing--movie that revisits one of the most renowned friendships in TV.
From Time Magazine Archive
They made a three-point landing on the outskirts of Capetown, and she told Jem he hadn’t given her anything to say for ten minutes and she wasn’t going to play any more if he didn’t.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
