Definition of airstrip
: a runway without normal air base or airport facilities
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Rancho Tehama was conceived as a retirement community in the late 1960s, but the wealthy urbanites meant to fly into the small private airstrip never materialized.
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There were giraffes and lions milling around just beyond the airstrip.
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Part of it was crafted from steel airstrip landing mats left over from the Vietnam War.
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How else to explain the Indian air force pilots flying helicopters on behalf of the Maldives from the atoll’s airstrip, or the nearby American-owned farm cultivating sea slugs for the Chinese market that is, surely, a CIA outpost?
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The pilot assured the few policemen who guarded the airstrip that more would be on the way by truck as soon as temporary bridges could be built over the major rivers.
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About three-fourths of the airstrip has been destroyed and Exxon is flying in specialists by helicopter to survey damage, Frank Kretschmer, the company's senior vice president for Asia-Pacific LNG Marketing, said Wednesday.
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But an earthquake Monday in Papua New Guinea wrecked the 3.2 kilometer (2 mile) airstrip, potentially hampering efforts to restart Exxon’s $19 billion PNG LNG project.
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Six were across the bay at the airstrip, where during the fires the base’s C-12, twin-engine turboprops flew over the smoke as spotters for the firefighters.
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First Known Use of airstrip
1911
AIRSTRIP Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of airstrip for English Language Learners
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: an area of land that is used as a runway for airplanes to take off and land
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Definition of airstrip for Students
: a runway without places (as hangars) for the repair of aircraft or shelter of passengers or cargo
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