Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Landing flare
The flare is one tiny part of landing an aircraft and as such belongs in the Landing article, not in a stand alone article. If this were to survive then logically we should have articles on pre-landing checks, lowering the landing gear, approach, round out, flare, hold-off, touch down, braking and taxiing clear of the runway, which are the other parts of landing an aircraft. The existing articles Final approach (aviation) and Touch-and-go landing should probably also be combined into Landing, but that is another issue. The inclusion of descriptions of pyrotechnic flares used for night landings as "landing flares" in the same article, means this article is about two subjects, an aircraft maneuver and a pyrotechnic device. This is like combining the writing instrument Pen with Pig pens, on the basis that they are related subjects. The confusion of adding two subjects to the same article seems to have come about because the aircraft maneuver is too brief a subject to warrant a stand alone article in the first place without going into  territory and parts of the current article are already doing that
— User:Ahunt, 20:53, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:NOTMANUAL (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)