The plane managed to glide down to the runway.

飞机终于成功地滑翔降落在跑道上。

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It will later be dropped from the plane to test its ability to glide and land.

企业号随后脱离飞机，测试滑翔和着陆能力。

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The pilot managed to glide the plane down to a safe landing.

飞行员使飞机向下滑翔而安全地着陆。

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The corporate chief simply pushes his "automatic flight mode" and the plane will glide nicely as the mass will work hard to set the course.

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When Jeffrey Skiles, the co-pilot of the plane that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River in January 2009, explained how he and his captain decided that an airport landing was impossible, he described the same "gaze heuristic": The angle of the plane's descending glide made the airport appear to rise in their windscreen view clearly signaling that a landing there was doomed.

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