landing roll


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landing roll

The movement of an aircraft from touchdown through deceleration to taxi speed or full stop.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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According to new report available with Million Insights, Aircraft arresting systems are used to guarantee an aircraft is stopped on the runway during the landing roll or after a high speed rejected take off.
The most common figure is to add 10 percent to the takeoff or landing roll for every two knots of tailwind up to 10 knots.
In fact, they only have to handle a taxi to takeoff followed by the takeoff roll, or a landing roll followed by a taxi back to parking.
Qatar Airways Friday said its flight QR516, travelling from Doha to Kochi, India, skidded during "landing roll" due to heavy rain and water on the runway at the Kochi airport, damaging a few runway lights.
"During landing roll, the aircraft veered off to the left and was aligned to the central line by the pilot.
'The pilots detected unusual vibrations from the nose landing gear of the aircraft during the landing roll out,' the advisory said.
The wheel is rotated ahead of the touchdown by the action of the wind pressure received by the protrusion in a direction in which the wheel rotates during a landing roll. Weight is inserted into a hollow part of the protrusion.
So close calls tend to appear in the form of back-taxiing on runways with an aircraft on final approach, aircraft departing with other traffic still on the landing roll or someone trying to speed across a runway while another aircraft is on a takeoff or landing roll.
A bird strike is defined as a collision between a bird and an aircraft which is in flight or on takeoff or landing roll. The term is often expanded to cover the other wildlife strike, i.e.
A bird strike defines as a collision between a bird and aircraft which is in flight or on takeoff or landing roll.