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airstrip

[ air-strip ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

airstrip

/ ˈɛəˌstrɪp /

a cleared area for the landing and taking off of aircraft; runway Also calledlanding strip

First recorded in 1940–45; air ¹ + strip ²

But as the decades passed, airplanes replaced steamboats and folks abandoned Old Bettles to live near the airstrip.

The Cessna landed like a feather on Bettles Field, a long, flat airstrip built by the Navy during World War II.

Growing up in Lukla, Pasang watched planes land at the airstrip near her village.

It was late 1977 when the DC-3 lowered its landing gear onto a jungle airstrip, one of dozens on the Caribbean side of Colombia.

Her body had been found along an abandoned airstrip access road just 30 yards from her host family's home.

The engineer tapped on the microphone, and the tap, greatly amplified, reverberated across the airstrip.

Then the firing area was passed and the jeep sped along next to the miles-long black, oiled path of the airstrip.

At Umiat (June 25, 1952), ptarmigan were using seven dusting pits on the shoulder of the airstrip.

There, on the proving ground, they watched a big transport-plane land on a makeshift airstrip.

He saw several flocks of ducks including one containing "about a dozen ducks" at ponds along a roadway and at an airstrip.

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