单词 | pancaking |
释义 | > as lemmasˈpancaking ˈpancaking n. Aeronautics the action of making a pancake landing (see sense 2). ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > landing > emergency > with undercarriage retracted pancake1912 pancaking1912 belly flop1938 belly-landing1939 1912 Aero Mar. 66/1 He..then shut off his engine, calmly waiting for the machine to return to the ground, which it did with a resultant bump, commonly known to the aviation world as pancaking (falling flatly). 1986 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 1 June ii. 1/1 A wire to the rudder broke, sending his plane into a 1,2000-foot descent, finally pancaking in Palm City. < as lemmas |
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