landing strip

noun

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Schuster said the angle at which the landing area crosses the Fujian’s deck is only 6 degrees off center, compared with 9 degrees on the US carriers, limiting space between the landing strip and the forward two catapults. Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025 He was then put in the back of a pickup truck and taken to a landing strip, where he was forced onto a private jet headed for the United States. Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025 Demonstrators lined both sides of the narrow two-way road leading to the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, a remote landing strip just north of Tamiami Trail. Pedro Portal, Miami Herald, 28 June 2025 The flight crashed almost immediately after takeoff, hitting the ground about a runway distance away from the landing strip. Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 12 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for landing strip

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First Known Use

1930, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of landing strip was in 1930

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“Landing strip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/landing%20strip. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.

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