three-point landing

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   a landing in which all three wheels of the aircraft touch the ground at the same time

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Questions about three-point landing

What does three-point landing mean?

three-point landing means "a landing in which all three wheels of the aircraft touch the ground at the same time".

Is three-point landing a common word?

three-point landing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.