Hovercraft are also used by the military for their amphibious landing capabilities.

Air cushion technology has vastly increased the landing capability of the craft, providing greater speed and flexibility over traditional landing craft.

Category IIIb automatic landing capability for bad-weather operations and Future Air Navigation Systems are available.

The test flight verified flight control systems and vertical landing capabilities and was deemed a success after reaching a 46 m altitude in a 59 second flight.

Therefore, air stations having only water landing capabilities, such as Salem, were phased out.

The ship that they were on had a planetary landing capability, which is itself significant.

"So you're no closer to finding out if the city even has landing capabilities," Gold said.

In 2011 and 2012, NASA also conducted drop tests of the Orion test vehicle's parachute systems and land-based landing capabilities.

The lark had vertical landing capability; it touched down on grass beside the river we'd been following, only half a klick from the entrance to Chee and Seele's city.

Under privatization, if the F.A.A. yielded ownership of the control tower, La Guardia could install equipment giving it increased bad-weather landing capability.