What does VD stand for?

Vertical Descent

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2] attitude, a finding that could indicate the pilots may have been able to maintain attitude control of the twin-engine heavy helicopter if not its vertical descent rate during the ditching attempt.

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The report states: As the helicopter performed a vertical descent into the confined car park, the left hand rear side of the main rotor disk struck a six-metre-high lamppost.

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The race involves a vertical descent of eight miles from the top of the famous James Bond Schilthorn to the village of Lauter brunnen.

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According to the online version of Encyclopedia Britanica, the parachute is "a device that slows the vertical descent of a body falling through the atmosphere or the velocity of a body moving horizontally.

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5-foot crater and limited damage to heavy overhead foliage suggesting "a near vertical descent.

Famed test pilot said at fault in crash

Contributing anthropologists first test the assumption of the phylogenetic model for cultural diversification, that is, whether traits are related across different cultures by vertical descent or by borrowing.

The evolution of cultural diversity; a phylogenetic approach

The pod, after its vertical descent down a rail, hurtled along a horizontal track more than three football pitches long, then braked slowly to a halt.

Soaking up the sunshine