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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.
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Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
Radcliffe brought us down smoothly on an unpaved landing strip amid camel thorn and euphorbia trees, their foliage scorched by the elements.
—Aatish Taseer, Travel + Leisure, 13 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
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Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
Radcliffe brought us down smoothly on an unpaved landing strip amid camel thorn and euphorbia trees, their foliage scorched by the elements.
—Aatish Taseer, Travel + Leisure, 13 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
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“Landing strip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/landing%20strip. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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