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Recent Examples of landing stripAt night the light display glows like an airplane landing strip.—Literary Hub, 12 June 2025 About two weeks ago, on May 20, funnel clouds reported near the Quad Cities airport forced travelers to take cover in the basement and federal air controllers to leave the glass tower that overlooks the landing strips.—Evan Bush, NBC news, 6 June 2025 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, 15 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for landing strip
Infrared imaging released by the GUR shows the targeting of the helicopters at an air base.
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Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
Right next door to it is one of Africa’s five longest runways, offering the U.S. the possibility of both a sea and air base that can strike Houthi rebels to the north and Al Shabaab terrorists to the east.
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