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Landing Gear: The wheels, floats, skis, and all of the attachments that support the airplane when it is resting on the ground or water.

Gear Indicators: a device in the cockpit of an airplane with a retractable landing gear to inform the pilot of the condition of the wheels. It indicates whether they are down and locked, in transit, or up and locked.

Landing Wires: Interplane bracing wires that help support wingloads when the plane is on the ground. Direction of travel is downward and outward from the fuselage. Opposite of FLYING WIRES.

Landing Roll: the distance an aircraft travels on the ground after touchdown to the point it can be stopped or exits to the taxiway.

Landing Page: A Web page viewed after clicking on a link within an email. Also may be called a microsite, splash page, bounce page, or click page.

Landing Flaps: a secondary control surface built into the wing by which the overall wing area, or lift-drag ratio, can be increased. The increased wing area permits a slower landing speed. The increased dr . . . View Full Definition

Pancake Landing: an aircraft landing procedure in which the aircraft is on an even plane with the runway. As the aircraft reduces speed and lift, it drops to the ground in a flat or prone attitude.

Landing Page Quality Scores: A measure used by Google to help filter noisy ads out of their AdWords program. When Google AdWords launched affiliates and arbitrage players made up a large portion of their ad market, but . . . View Full Definition

Soft Landing: The value of research services that brokerage houses supply to investment managers 'free of charge' in exchange for the investment manager's business commissions.

Tumbler Gears: A pair of small lever-mounted gears on a lathe used to engage or to change the direction of the leadscrew.