Area or surface designated for aircraft operations
Landing area is an official designation of specialized Earth surface region by the international standard publication describing airfields and airports to aviators, the Aeronautical Information Publication. As such, it is directly translated into dozens of languages, wherever an AIP publication exists, which is one for every aviation-regulating country of the world. It is the most salient description of the logistics real estate which enable planes or helicopters or other aircraft to come and go. It also has other meanings, which extend beyond aviation concepts and airport terminology, all of them military in kind.
A landing area may be:
Any wrought, treated or merely selected surface of land, water, or a ship vessel's deck employed in a sustained way for either takeoff or landing of aircraft.
Operational area segment of an amphibious military unit. This may comprise the beach, the over-water or over-land approaches to the said beach, as well as adjacent transport areas, airspace, or so-called fire support zones, including airspace and terrain subjected to the presence or actions of close-support aircraft. Usually this concept extends to any land included in any consequent military advance made.
(Airborne forces) The area where landing troops are to be deployed, or supplies, either through air landing or air drop, including drop zones, landing strips, adjacent airspace or body of water.
Landingarea is an official designation of specialized Earth surface region by the international standard publication describing airfields and airports...
types: Normal landings Crosswind landings - where a significant wind not aligned with the landingarea is a factor Short field landings - where the length...
Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a human-made...
Landing pad may refer to: Helipad, a landingarea for helicopters Rocket landing pad (disambiguation) Landing zone (disambiguation) Landing (disambiguation)...
In military terminology a landing zone (LZ) is an area where aircraft can land. In the United States military, a landing zone is the actual point where...
of aircraft landing on ships in the 1920s to the introduction of OLSs, pilots relied solely on their visual perception of the landingarea and the aid...
operating team for an offshore helideck, a purpose-built helicopter landingarea, usually on a ship or offshore oil/gas installation. Over the years the...
A landing signal officer or landing safety officer (LSO), also informally known as paddles (United States Navy) or batsman (Royal Navy), is a naval aviator...
Arlington County City of Alexandria National Landing U.S. Capitol Washington, D.C. National Landing is an area in Northern Virginia encompassing parts of...
A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made...
minesweepers, one for landingareas terminating at the base of the Gulf, west on the beach of Lingayen, and one for landingareas terminating east at the...
mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consist of a landingarea, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least...
A helipad is a landingarea or platform for helicopters and powered lift aircraft. While helicopters and powered lift aircraft are able to operate on a...
systems consist of several steel wire ropes laid across the aircraft landingarea, designed to be caught by an aircraft's tailhook. During a normal arrestment...
MacArthur Leyte Landing Memorial National Park (also known as the Leyte Landing Memorial Park and MacArthur Park) is a protected area of the Philippines...
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation...
Landing craft are small and medium seagoing watercraft, such as boats and barges, used to convey a landing force (infantry and vehicles) from the sea to...
A deadstick landing, also called a dead-stick landing, is a type of forced landing when an aircraft loses all of its propulsive power and is forced to...
which could be mounted on landing craft and landing ships. As part of the final barrage before an assault, the landingarea would be plastered by these...
adoption of a landingarea angled off axis to allow aircraft who missed the arresting wires to "bolt" and safely return to flight for another landing attempt...
relatively short usable landingarea, steep descent angle over the crest of Bankers Hill, and shifting wind currents just before landing. The airport operates...
in an area defended by German troops. Planned under the name Top Hat, it was supported by the deception plan Operation Boardman. The landings were carried...
Landing gear is the undercarriage of an aircraft or spacecraft that is used for taxiing, takeoff or landing. For aircraft it is generally needed for both...
the US landing formed part of the wider Operation Cartwheel, the main Allied strategy in the South West Pacific Area and Pacific Ocean Areas during 1943–1944...
the ice plateau 40 km (25 miles) east of Davis Station, used as a ski landingarea (SLA) in late summer when the early summer sea ice SLAs adjacent to Davis...
An emergency landing is a premature landing made by an aircraft in response to an emergency involving an imminent or ongoing threat to the safety and operation...
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