No time to check now, she decided, feeding the rest of the reserve power into the landing systems and bringing the nose up.

The required standard was that any landing system could not cause more than one accident in every ten million landings.

The airport has no radar nor instrument landing system and planes are guided in by radio beacon.

However, the blades could be used to soft land the vehicle, so its landing system carried no additional cost.

The fully automated landing system is one difference from the American craft.

Titov said he ejected from his capsule to test another landing system.

Meteor is a project designed to provide a landing system for falling body to a 100 metre accuracy, from any point within the Earth's atmosphere.

Hazeltine has delivered two of the 178 landing systems called for in the contract since beginning work in 1984, it said.

The landing system is similar to a sky crane heavy-lift helicopter.

Additionally, some (particularly later) optical landing systems include additional lamps: