three-point landing
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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
After arguing amiably with his pilot, Major Hugh F. McCaffrey, about the best place to land, he roared in, made a perfect three-point landing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Too many space enthusiasts, says Porter, assume that the descent on the moon would be "a simple . . . 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
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
