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| Used instead of typical landing gear with wheels. |
| A large airplane left the city of Cor and hurtled through the Venerian night, low above the fetid jungle, toward a rocky high plateau in the distance. A tiny silent skyship darted down out of the cloudy upper atmosphere and cautiously approached the larger plane. Finally, the three disk-shaped pads that occupied the place of the landing gear of the small plane, touched the top of the large plane’s fuselage, and clung there. The pilot of the parasite left its motor running in order not to give away his presence to the occupants of the larger ship, and climbed daringly out on its fuselage.
 (Disk-shaped pads from 'The Swordsman of Cloukey' by Charles Cloukey)
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