landing strip

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Recent Examples of landing strip Photos posted to the department's Facebook page show the small aircraft sitting among the trees alongside the landing strip. Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2025 Just after the war, as part of Operation Nanook, the Americans expanded the existing installation with a gravel landing strip as part of an upgrade to a new and larger weather station. Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 10 Feb. 2025 Only two people survived after the 15-year-old 737-800 Boeing plane run by Jeju Air skidded across the landing strip without landing gear and crashed into a concrete barrier containing antennas, bursting into flames. Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025 Fullerton Mayor Pro Tem Shana Charles told the Los Angeles Times more oversight is needed including making sure the entryway for the landing strip is safer and more education for pilots. Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for landing strip
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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
Noun
  • Following Israel’s strikes on Iran on June 13, three drones were shot down near Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq, The Associated Press reported.
    Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 20 June 2025
  • Open-source analysis has suggested one A-50 spy plane was damaged or destroyed at Ivanovo air base, as well as four Tu-95 aircraft and three Tu-22M3 bombers at the Belaya air base, the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) think tank said on Monday.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025

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