landing field

noun

Definition of landing fieldnext
as in landing strip

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Recent Examples of landing field 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 Van Zandt purchased 278 acres of cotton fields east of 24th Street and south of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks and transformed them into a landing field. — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2024 And no ones sees that landing field more clearly than Michael O’Leary, Boeing’s disappointed customer, but still true believer. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024 The 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 See All Example Sentences for landing field
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  1. landing strip
  2. air base
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  • Those who don’t want to drive to Roy’s can actually fly into the desert landing strip behind the cafe (which was apparently one of California’s first airfields of any kind).
    — Joe Yogerst, CNN Money, 27 May 2026
  • Bees evolved eyes tuned to floral landing strips painted in wavelengths that humans can’t detect.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
Definition of landing strip
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  • German media reports say Kaufbeuren will host the system’s radar installation, while the interceptor launchers for the battery are expected to be stationed at the nearby Lechfeld air base.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 5 July 2026
  • The city has a sprawling air base and is home to an infantry division.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 June 2026
Definition of air base

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