Landing Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

Landing is the last part of a flight, where a flying animal or aircraft returns to the ground. When the flying object returns to water, the process is called alighting, although it is commonly called "landing" as well. Hitting the ground too hard is prevented by wings (including rotor wings), a parachute or rockets or a vertically directed jet engine; in the case of a balloon the buoyancy is slightly decreased for a soft landing. Aircraft usually land at an airport on a runway or helicopter landing pad.
For aircraft or birds, landing is generally accomplished by gradually tapering down airspeed and lift. The first phase is the flare, where the rate of descent will be reduced by transitioning to a stall attitude. After slowing down, the plane changes pitch into the landing attitude shortly before touching down.

In a perfect touchdown, assuming there is no crosswind, contact with the ground is made just as the forward speed is reduced to the point where there is no longer sufficient lift to remain aloft. If there is a crosswind, techniques such as a crab landing or a slip landing are used to land the plane safely.

During landing, the ground effect becomes significant for aircraft. This tends to make the aircraft "keep flying" when it ordinarily would not (at higher altitudes) and therefore to extend the distance required to land.

Large transport category (airliner) aircraft land differently than described above. If the pilot waited for the aircraft to stall too much runway length would be used so the flare just reduces the rate of descent at touchdown and the aircraft is flown onto the runway. Usually spoilers (Sometimes called "Lift Dumpers") are immediately deployed to dramatically reduce the lift and transfer the aircraft's weight to its wheels, where mechanical braking can take effect.

Reverse thrust is used by many jet aircraft to help slow down just after touch-down.

To land on an aircraft carrier, a conventional aircraft (moving at, perhaps, 150 mph (240 km/h)) is equipped with tailhooks to engage one of up to four arresting cables stretched across the deck, stopping the aircraft within 320 feet (100 m) after engaging one of the cables. To assist safe landings, the carrier will usually steam directly into wind at full speed, thus reducing aircraft's speed relative to the carrier deck, and eliminating any crosswind.

From Wikipedia

Model: Canon PowerShot S400
Exposure Time: 1/60
F-Stop: f/4.9
Focal Length: 711/32 mm
Date Taken: 2005-08-07 20:55
Metering Mode: Pattern
Flash: Flash fired, auto mode
File Size: 178 kb

Original colours and light,it wasn't post processed.

ChrisJ, vesilvio, delkoo, PLD_images, josepmarin, JCG, sufi, nbj has marked this note useful

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Floydian (30970) 2006-10-17 4:06

Goodmorning Paolo,
A simple compostion, but high impact with that plane and those beautiful colours. I liike it a lot..good work..!!!
Regards, Henk

fabio_ts (13674) 2006-10-17 4:14

Questa è una di quelle foto che attirano e "toccano" tutti noi amanti dei viaggi.. :o) bella immagine Paolo, attraente e ben composta, complimenti!!

ciao,
Fabio.

chrisnet (20374) 2006-10-17 4:19

Hello Paolo,
Minimalist but efficace!
Very nice colors,good choice of the format vertical.Well done!
Regards
Christian

ChrisJ (70271) 2006-10-17 4:22

Bonjourno Paolo

Wonderful warm red sunset colours, with a reasonably sharp silhouette of the jet airliner & mountain range lower centre. Ciao!

jinju (14265) 2006-10-17 4:26

Hi Paolo,

a nice sunset. Its a good composition, but I wish the plane was higher. Perhaps Im asking for the impossible but would love to see the plane a bit more into the top empty part of the sky to fill it out a bit more. I do really like the colors very much and overall the shot is quite nice.

vapours (7913) 2006-10-17 4:40

Great shot here Paolo, a beautiful coloured sunset with my favourite method of transportation in the middle. Well done.

cessy (13647) 2006-10-17 4:48

Halo Paolo
nice picture
I like how you give big portion of the sky, the colors are marvelous

vesilvio (750) 2006-10-17 4:49

Complimenti Paolo.
Scatto molto caldo ed emotivamente coinvolgente.
Ottime le sfumature del tramonto su nuvole, specialment equelle alte, veramente molto belle.
Ottimo posizionamento del soggetto.

Complimenti anche per le note, romantiche e dettagliatissime !!!

...appassionato anche di volo ??

Ciao,
silvio

Cretense (56192) 2006-10-17 6:26

Hi Paolo!

Another magic moment from you! Words are useless...

Hercules

lasscor (7637) 2006-10-17 6:57

Hi Paolo,
Nice sunset composition.
Minimalist, simple and coloured.
TFS,
Corinne

delkoo (34296) 2006-10-17 7:04

hi paolo
simple and efficient shot, you invite us to travel through your photo In the beautiful colors.

regards
didier

feather (49860) 2006-10-17 9:12

Great shot. There really are fantastic sunsets in Sardinia. The one I posted last week was so vivid I thought people would not believe I hadn't tampered with it. Good work.
Kath

PLD_images (7141) 2006-10-17 9:12

Ciao Paolo,

Very well manageg light in this shot. THe colors are warm, beautiful and great to look at. A brilliant capture witht the landing plane in the shot. Great note also.

Regards - Paul

stefanocer (10404) 2006-10-17 10:05

Molto bella , Complimenti.
Stefano.

josepmarin (33785) 2006-10-17 12:12

Ciao Paolo,
bella imagen con unos colores y tonos naranja magníficos y muy cálidos. Has dado un gran protagonismo al precioso cielo y eso me gusta, mientras la silueta de las montañas abajo y la del avión en plena maniobra de aproximación para aterrizar complementan con mucha elegancia el conjunto.
Muy buena foto, me gusta.
Sabes que me gusta mucho volar pero me aterran las maniobras de despegue y de aterrizaje?
En fin, es un tributo que debo pagar para viajar.
Un saludo,
Josep

recepyuksel (17786) 2006-10-17 12:51

Great composition,
great minimalism
perfect
selam

tjanze (5674) 2006-10-18 4:00

Hi Paolo!
I like composition with red warm colors.Plane gives some movement on photo and feeling of measure.
Regards!

saigon (5497) 2006-10-18 5:11

un avion dans un ciel de feu!!....c'est l'enfer!! ;o)
belle capture PAOLO.
amicizia....aldo.

JCG (25343) 2006-10-18 12:26

Hi Paolo,

A splendid stripped photo. The colors are extraordinary. Framing is completely judicious here. The light is excellent. A fantastic
image, beautiful work. Thank you and cheer.

Best regards,

Jean-Charles

Graal (57995) 2006-10-20 2:19

Hi Paolo,
fine shot, good vertical composition and beautiful colours. I like it.
Gr., Aleksander

jemaflor (39385) 2006-10-20 7:12

Hi Paolo,
Minimalist composition but great effect, what a lovely sky with these warm colours, well seen the detail with a plane.

sufi (9568) 2006-10-20 11:39

Hi Paolo...
Wow... Great colors... Wonderful point of view and perfect silhouettes plane and mountains... The passing of the colors and the light are also perfect...
TFS...
Stay well..
Salim.

ndb1958 (9248) 2006-10-23 13:04

Me again, I missed even this one. It's great. A wonderful sky! I love the plane ready for landing. Nice image, Nino.

arturo (31) 2006-10-31 16:25

Hi Paulo,

a perfect scenery for Icarus crash landing to be honest...flying is so cool, even though one has to go through all this mega security nonsense this days...i think people will be soon forced to board their planes butt naked...back to the image, beautiful captue...reminds me of some summer holidays a few years ago...memories are good...cheers, arturo

anducina (8093) 2006-11-17 11:08

Simple but very suggestive composition, I like that narrow framing and the colours. I have always loved those simple photos, that tell a lot of things with only few elements.
TFS,

Andreea

nbj (1871) 2006-12-04 12:15

Hi Paolo,

This picture gives me the sweet longing for traveling. Just came back, but miss it already. Anyway, good and very simple composition, and a beautiful sky.

Nana