airstrip

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Recent Examples of airstrip There is one single airstrip and a helipad available to the base, which has four visits a year, according to COMNAP. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025 Sure, the MiGs can spread out across airstrips and highways and operate for as long as their ground crews can refuel, rearm and repair them. David Axe, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025 After taking control of Greenland, Roosevelt instructed the Army Corps of Engineers to construct airstrips at the southern tip of Greenland—a feat that everyone had thought was impossible, Bo Lidegaard, a Danish historian and former diplomat, told me. Louise Bokkenheuser, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2025 There’s even a 20-acre, 18-basket Frisbee golf course, a greenhouse, a five-car garage, and plenty of space for your own airstrip. Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for airstrip
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Noun
  • On this season’s runways, two trends reigned supreme.
    Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 2 May 2025
  • The airport has the busiest runway in America, according to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
    Alexandra Koch , Chad Pergram , Grady Trimble, FOXNews.com, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • It is equipped with a helipad and a radome, which typically encases an antenna.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Manhattan has several helipads that whisk business executives and others to destinations throughout the metropolitan area.
    Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In the case of emergencies, the ship heliport was enlisted.
    Gillian Telling, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • At the same time, its landing fees at the Lower Manhattan heliport substantially increased, Mr. Roth said in court papers.
    Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The base would be coupled with Berbera International Airport, which at 2.6 miles has one of the longest landing strips in Africa.
    Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Ken said that when the plane finally stopped on that tiny landing strip, its nose was 2 feet from the water.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But thanks to Andrew Cuomo’s time as governor, the once awful Third World landing field in Queens now matches Fiorello the man in superlatives.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Across the street from the resort was the Chicagoland Airport, once a satellite landing field during World War II for Glenview Naval Air Station.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025

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