Definition of airstrip
: a runway without normal air base or airport facilities
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The couple took off from a private airstrip near Salcha just before 10:30 a.m. that Sunday, headed for their homestead west of McCarthy.
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During the Cold War, the prospect of war with the Soviet Union forced NATO to consider drastic measures to keep planes flying in wartime, including using stretches of the famous West German Autobahn as temporary airstrips.
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Police said the 12-seat Beechcraft King Air C90 crashed on a test flight after being repaired and had taken off from Mumbai's Juhu airstrip, which is used by small planes and is some distance from the city's main airport.
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Noriega, however, was the de facto ruler of Panama, not the president, at the time of his indictment for taking millions in payoffs to make secure airstrips available to drug traffickers.
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Forty minutes north of Las Vegas, Creech is a constellation of windswept airstrips surrounded by sagebrush and cactus groves.
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Meeting Kennedy operatives at a local airstrip, he was greeted with a nice surprise: thirty-five thousand dollars in cash.
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Its airstrip is too decrepit and overgrown to allow supplies to be flown in, Dr. Salama said.
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Local historian Vanessa Seekee, who has studied the battalion's history, said Horn Island was the base for Australia's most northerly airstrip, which was vital for the Allied forces in the Asia Pacific theater.
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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
AIRSTRIP Defined for Kids
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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