"Eleven more U.S. airports plan to adopt a new way of landing planes that reduces both emissions and noise — all by having incoming planes turn off their engines and glide down to the tarmac like a paraglider."

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"Eleven more U.S. airports plan to adopt a new way of landing planes that reduces both emissions and noise — all by having incoming planes turn off their engines and glide down to the tarmac like a paraglider." (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Watching autorotation practice at an air station was amazing. The pilots would have to shut their engine off at about 2000' and land those big helicopters with the pitch control alone. (control of the angle of the blades) They would drop like a rock and a few hundred feet off the ground would have to yank back on the stick making the blades look like a cup. A lot of them bounced pretty hard off the tarmac, but I never saw one pop a tire.

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