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landing field

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Definition of landing field

as in landing strip

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Recent Examples of landing field The teens were evaluated by medical personnel at a landing field before they were released, rescuers said. — Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2025 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 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

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Constructing Alligator Alcatraz Located on a remote landing strip surrounded by Big Cypress National Preserve, about 6 miles north of Everglades National Park, Alligator Alcatraz sparked controversy from the beginning.

— The Conversation, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026
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

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Throughout the conflict, the Hmeimem air base and the Tartus naval base were key Russian military outposts in the eastern Mediterranean.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
The incursions became serious enough that Langley canceled nighttime training flights and moved its F-22 jets to another air base.

— Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Aug. 2026

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