flying field
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of flying field
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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The Airport fire first ignited Sept. 9 off Trabuco Creek Road near the RC flying field and had grown to 23,519 acres as of Friday morning.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2024
Casualty Co.; his second, Wartime Air Corps instructor at a Texas flying field.
From Time Magazine Archive
The task force pounded away, and from Wake's new oil stores, ammunition dumps and flying field buildings, smoke began to billow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Floyd Bennett Field, built five years ago on Brooklyn's Barren Island at a cost of $4,000,000, has been virtually deserted while Newark Airport grew fat & famed as the world's busiest commercial flying field.
From Time Magazine Archive
Holt consolidated the parcels and sold them to the federal government for the flying field and laboratory.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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