Recent Examples on the WebThe site is actually the birthplace of America’s space program, and is home not just to a space capsule landing field, but the latest in weapons tech, from lasers to electromagnetic railguns.—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023 The ring was an airship landing field.—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022 During an emergency action plan rehearsal at an Alabama high school, medical providers realized that a foot bridge to the life-flight helicopter’s emergency landing field wasn’t wide enough to support a gurney.—Julie Washington, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2023 But just as a scene begins to flatten, an aircraft crashes into a tree or flips cleanly onto its back on a landing field, instantly reviving the narrative.—Andrea Pitzer, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022 Her friend decided to meet the pilots in the landing field.—CNN, 25 Feb. 2022 After six months on the International Space Station, the Napa native is set to chart a fiery descent through the earth’s atmosphere aboard a Russian spacecraft bound for a desolate landing field in Kazakhstan.—Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2021 The site is actually the birthplace of America’s space program, and today is home not just to a space capsule landing field, but the latest in weapons tech, too, from lasers to electromagnetic railguns.—Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2021 But the location proved too windy (and perhaps elevated) for unloading human passengers who were to walk across a gangplank, even if the midtown location was more convenient than the airship landing field in Lakehurst.—Starre Vartan, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2020 See More
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