autolandn.
/ˈɔːtə(ʊ)land/, U.S. /ˈɔdəˌlænd/, /ˈɔdoʊˌlænd/, /ˈɑdəˌlænd/, /ˈɑdoʊˌlænd/ Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Automated landing of an aircraft or spacecraft; a system that facilitates this. Also: a landing made using such a system. Frequently attributive.
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1959 Flight 11 Sept. 212/2 The Autoland single-channel automatic landing system..is now out of the development stage.
1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Jan. 29/2 About 10 per cent of the landings these planes make are carried out solely by the autoland system.
1996 C. E. Cohen et al. in B. W. Parkinson & J. J. Spilker Global Positioning Syst. II. xv. 444 Figure 12 shows the aircraft just following touchdown during one of its 110 autolands at NASA's Crows Landing research facility.
2005 B. Evans Space Shuttle Columbia i. 41 Charlie Bolden..was unhappy about using autoland so close to touchdown, especially on a test flight.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
autolandv.
/ˈɔːtə(ʊ)land/, U.S. /ˈɔdəˌlænd/, /ˈɔdoʊˌlænd/, /ˈɑdəˌlænd/, /ˈɑdoʊˌlænd/ Aeronautics and Astronautics.
transitive and intransitive. To land automatically or using an autoland system.
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1965 Jetage Airlanes Apr.–May 9/1 (heading) Autolanding the Trident.
1968 Space/Aeronautics Aug. 53/2 If the first failure occurs before you begin to autoland, the system is dead and you divert to another airport.
1973 Reader's Digest Feb. 73/2 With pilots encouraged to practise in clear weather also, 1.25 million passengers have in fact been autolanded at airports all over Europe.
1995 Navigation 42 467 (title) Autolanding a 737 using GPS integrity beacons.
2004 Boys' Life Oct. 6 Beginners can ‘auto-land’ until they are comfortable behind the wings.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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