Definition of landing light in English:

landing light


usually landing lights
  • 1A bright light on an aircraft that is switched on prior to landing.

    • ‘Aircraft manufacturer's recommendations for operation of landing lights and electrical systems should be observed.’
    • ‘I noticed an object to my southwest heading northeast that at first, I thought was an aircraft with it's landing lights on.’
    • ‘Everyone dove under cover, and looked out at a set of bright landing lights approaching from the western sky.’
    • ‘The Model 1 did not have landing lights and, instead, used parachute flares for this purpose.’
    • ‘Also of note are the large landing lights built into the leading edge of the top wing which were big improvements for operating at night from primitive fields.’
    • ‘I approached four miles at 1,200 feet, dirty, with my landing lights on, still VFR above the clouds.’
    • ‘The pilot would see the whole airport ‘picture’ while on the downwind, base leg and turning final, where the landing lights would take over.’
    • ‘All planes had their landing lights on and I was in the tail dutifully flashing in all directions my Aldus lamp with an orange screen on it to penetrate the fog.’
    • ‘There is no other feeling in the world like having your retinas scarred by oncoming, misaligned, aircraft landing lights that are wobbling around in the jigsaw-cut holes in a fascia.’
    • ‘Winds sometimes are stronger, snow and ice on the runway can be significant considerations, and falling snow during the approach can render landing lights worse than useless.’
    • ‘We also continued orbiting and illuminating the water with our landing lights as the tugboat arrived.’
    • ‘Its unique decor features airplane artifacts including landing lights, propellers and first class passenger seats with tray tables.’
    • ‘You know the red landing lights they have on the top of aircraft wings.’
    • ‘Casually wondering why I was looking into what might be an aircraft landing light, I was startled to see it make a 180 degree Que-ball turn, without diminishing its speed.’
    • ‘It did not appear to be an airplane or a helicopter, there were no landing lights etc.’
    • ‘As a resident of Myrtle Beach, I can state that these lights were the wrong color and were stationary, whereas aircraft landing lights are a brilliant white and slowly move toward the airport.’
    • ‘Editor's Note: Bryan, although your case needs further investigation, it could have been a bright landing light or if it moved faster than a plane it was possibly a UFO.’
    1. 1.1 A light of a kind that is arranged in rows along each side of an aircraft runway.
      • ‘The runway was well lit by landing lights and backscatter from the city.’
      • ‘Lyneham ground crews had worked round the clock to make the runway safe and had installed new landing lights.’
      • ‘After securing the sandy airfield, troops set up landing lights so fixedwing aircraft could bring more troops and supplies, he said.’
      • ‘They also act like airstrip landing lights when your customer needs to find his gun in the dark when the burglar alarm goes off.’
      • ‘Few airports had landing lights so there was little night flying.’
      • ‘First, in the dark of a bedroom or hotel room, the glowing green dots guide my just-awakened eyes to the pistol, like airstrip landing lights guiding a pilot.’
      • ‘For home defense, compactness is not a big issue and the 12Z model does a good imitation of an airfield landing light.’
      • ‘‘Keeping up our conventional military now is like keeping the landing lights on for Amelia Earhart,’ he says.’
      • ‘We were guided as we went by millions of fireflies whose flashing marked the banks like landing lights on an airstrip.’
      • ‘For the last person into goal we nearly had to turn on the car headlights for landing lights at the airstrip.’
      • ‘The first element of a landing sequence is the spotting of the ship from a mile or more out, using the landing lights as a point of reference.’
      • ‘She pointed her car up the driveway using the landscape fixtures like landing lights on a runway.’