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Recent Examples of airstrip
Meanwhile, the Chinchero International Airport is set to open late next year in the Sacred Valley, even closer to Machu Picchu than the current airstrip in Cusco.
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Mark Johanson, Outside, 25 Sep. 2025
There's also an underground vault, two observation platforms, telescopes and an airstrip.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Of course, romanticism has never been Denis’ thing, and from the moment Leonie touches down at a tiny airstrip, the reality of where she’s landed becomes apparent.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
In 2003, 21-year-old Katharine Lampman was fatally crushed under a moving art car, while plane crashes at the temporary airstrip and a truck rollover caused additional injuries.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
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Mark Johanson, Outside, 25 Sep. 2025
There's also an underground vault, two observation platforms, telescopes and an airstrip.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Of course, romanticism has never been Denis’ thing, and from the moment Leonie touches down at a tiny airstrip, the reality of where she’s landed becomes apparent.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
In 2003, 21-year-old Katharine Lampman was fatally crushed under a moving art car, while plane crashes at the temporary airstrip and a truck rollover caused additional injuries.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airstrip
Noun
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Photographic evidence shows engine #1 and most of the pylon — the components that mount the engine to the wing of the aircraft — next to the runway, and the NTSB confirmed this during the third press conference.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
10 Nov. 2025
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Footage has emerged of dozens of planes lined up on a runway at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Sunday.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Scenes in Meredith Grey's (Ellen Pompeo) house and on the rooftop helipad of Grey Sloan Memorial are both filmed in the Emerald City, per Los Angeles Magazine.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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But if the hotel has made the town enticing to a new kind of visitor—say, one who appreciates the convenience of its helipad—the property has none of the hermetic insularity of a traditional resort.—
David Amsden,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Meanwhile, Joby Aviation is making an electric aircraft that takes off and lands vertically to provide ridesharing from a heliport in downtown Manhattan to John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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The city of Indianapolis has received approval to take ownership of the downtown heliport, a key step for a future redevelopment plan that could include a future soccer stadium.—
Alysa Guffey,
IndyStar,
17 Oct. 2025
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
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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
Noun
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This dimension of the work was heightened by its site, a former helicopter landing field on an old NATO base, given over to the Autostrada Biennale in 2014 as part of a process of demilitarization in the aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s and Kosovo’s declaration of independence in 2008.—
Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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The teens were evaluated by medical personnel at a landing field before they were released, rescuers said.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Sacbee.com,
26 June 2025
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“Airstrip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airstrip. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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