landing beacon

Also, a landing beacon that could facilitate future landings was being considered.

The ship requires the colony's landing beacon to be on when it arrives.

How about taking down those hangars one hundred meters south of the landing beacons, over."

I drifted closer to the landing beacon.

"Turn on the landing beacon, Tia, please.

It's a landing beacon for starships.

The house is about a mile from the landing beacon that pilots follow to approach the Westchester County Airport in bad weather.

The landing beacon still worked, if only because the Bennarian Volunteers hadn't thought to disable it.

On one sloping side of the irregular bowl of Stickney crater, a small landing beacon flashed every few seconds, as it had for decades.

Automatic high-redundancy devices operated the landing beacon; homeostatic surveillance kept the pad repaired and the bordering jungle cropped back.

The doors rolled away, and the lights went down, leaving Ael in starlight and the flashes of the landing beacons set in the floor.

Stationed presently on the cabin roof near the bows, he was vigorously turning a huge Crank jutting upward abaft the starboard landing beacon.

These provide power in order to recharge the droid's shields and weapons as well as for the landing beacon (required when a spaceship is about to land).

We are descending with neither reserve rockets nor jet power to a planet without landing beacons, without an actual touchdown point chosen, and without being invited."

About two kilometers above Blacl jack, I saw the rhythrme blinking of the landing beacon next to a bubble-domed minehead.

The immediate area was swept by powerful light beams from a landing beacon at RAF Bentwaters and the Orfordness lighthouse.

At one thousand meters the craft's landing beacons flared and three beams of coherent light from the space-port north of town locked the ship in a welcoming ruby tripod.

The Homing Beacon (also known as The Landing Beacon) is an acoustic song by Buckethead in tribute to Michael Jackson's death, who was an early influence on Buckethead.

The Colonial Marines gain credits by killing enemies and repairing atmosphere processors, and these credits can be put toward upgrading troop abilities and calling in new units via dropships that stop at nearby landing beacons.

Closer, it resolved into a coral-like mass of gantries and cranes and docking bays, service towers and recessed parking bays, spindly latticework exfoliating into vacuum, studded with a million stuttering lights of welding torches, advertising slogans and winking landing beacons.

The song has two different names because on the 2009 version, the drawing reads "The Homing Beacon - A song for Michael Jackson" but the MP3 file is called "The Landing Beacon" with "A Song for Michael Jackson" as the album title.

The startled faces of their crews seemed very close and white then 070 was past, her speed bleeding off sharply so her nose wheel dropped and she rocked and swayed gradually to a dead stop just short of the brick building which housed the approach and landing beacons, and the main radar installations.

Officials of the Federal Aviation Administration have tested the Croatian radio beacon that was presumably being used by the plane carrying Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown when it crashed on approach to the Dubrovnik airport and "found the landing beacon signal to be functioning properly during the tests," Air Force said today.

He had one of the two landing beacons, and his was the one that the other three landers would hone in on-assuming he managed to set down where he planned, assuming that he could find the correct high plateau in the middle of the right high mountain range without getting spitted on the surrounding needle-knife peaks.