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"airstrip" Definitions
  1. a narrow piece of cleared land that an aircraft can land on

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Transportation by helicopter will continue until the airstrip is operational.
Last year they destroyed an airstrip built by illegal gold miners.
He built a new village, an airstrip, and scientific research centers.
The plane landed in Omaha where paramedics rushed to the airstrip.
Smith and her husband to clear termite mounds from the airstrip.
Fifteen minutes later, the plane touches down at a remote airstrip.
Plans include airstrip expansion, port and power developments, and civilian research projects.
A private jet at an airstrip an hour's ride away was arranged.
An aerial shot from one of their helicopters shows a flooded airstrip.
"Ourilândia started as an airstrip in the jungle," Zimmerman, the ecologist, said.
Paramedics are at the airstrip right now, and Wayne is alert again.
So far, two civilian aircraft made test flights to the airstrip in January.
On Monday morning, two double-rotor US Army Chinooks roared onto the airstrip.
The group then tested the idea at an airstrip near Newport News, Virginia.
The temperature drops, and the airstrip, a few miles outside town, shuts down.
The naval airstrip at Kochi will be available for commercial flights by Monday.
Diamandis met Hariri 221 years ago, on an airstrip in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
He started sneaking off to a nearby dirt airstrip to watch planes take off.
It was a 35-minute flight to a little dusty airstrip inside the reserve.
Getting to the party required a harrowing landing on a steeply inclined covert airstrip.
The president met them at an airstrip behind the wheel of his Lincoln convertible.
Pilots will also need access to a small airstrip to take off and land.
Landing a plane on a floating airstrip was easier for some young men than others.
The airstrip is the first thing that Francis D. Shelden built after buying his hideaway.
They land on a clandestine airstrip, which is on a steep incline to slow the plane.
People gather on the Dadaab airstrip outside the buses that will take repatriating refugees to Somalia.
The airstrip was reopened briefly on Thursday but had to be closed again after another sighting.
The airstrip, which extends 1.8 miles, was completed this year on reclaimed land around the reef.
The island, which lies in the Spratlys, also has an airstrip, a hospital and fresh water.
Nobody had told him what any of this—the airstrip, the siege, the bombardment—was for.
With Govan's fund-raising covering payroll, Heizer started to sculpt the landscape west of the airstrip.
"I am shutting down engine No. 1," he said, and then veered back to the airstrip.
One of the missiles hit near an airstrip where six drones were parked, causing no damage.
DARA SAKOR, Cambodia — The airstrip stretches like a scar through what was once unspoiled Cambodian jungle.
The airstrip near Camp Simba is also a tourist site frequented by Western visitors to Kenya.
After searching around, he found a hardly used airstrip, where the closest building is a mile away.
And an old airstrip amid the farmsteads of northern Syria may have a new lease of life.
Three years ago, a small airstrip was put in, but scheduled air service has yet to begin.
The plane on which Atlangeriev landed was held on the airstrip for a little longer than usual.
Its airstrip is too decrepit and overgrown to allow supplies to be flown in, Dr. Salama said.
On September 29th, del Castillo took a private plane from Miami to an airstrip near Mexico City.
The presidential jet landed on Le Touquet's small airstrip so that he could vote at the town hall.
Sources have told CNN in recent months that ISIS has sabotaged the airstrip there to prevent its use.
It was unclear whether this was the first landing by a Chinese military jet on the new airstrip.
The Seronera Airstrip (SEU) is the main airport that services the Serengeti but it's for domestic flights only.
Indian peacekeepers shielded them and two U.N. helicopters and a civilian aircraft that were offloading at the airstrip.
He seemed especially impressed by Mr. Guzmán's secret airstrip where his five planes landed after arriving from Colombia.
He said last month that construction to convert a military airstrip into a commercial airport will begin in January.
A four-month baby elephant found in the southeastern savannah droughts was brought to the national park Voi Airstrip.
Rebuilding begins CNN witnessed frustrated Haitians setting up a barricade on the main road between Jeremie and the airstrip.
Francisco, who's also a pilot, built an airstrip from an old access road that runs next to the silo.
They talked of building an airstrip high on the Hardanger glacier from which to launch glider-bombers towards Britain.
That $149 million listing included horse and bison pastures, an airstrip and hangar, helipad, stables, and even an observatory.
Arising from the unsuccessful breach a fire broke out affecting some of the fuel tanks located at the airstrip.
We see them both die on the airstrip runway, blood streaking the outfits we've come to know them in.
Then TRUMP bombs ASSAD's airstrip, but in 24 hours Syrian warplanes are taking off and bombing and landing again.
It was built in the 1930s and served as a vital airstrip for allied bombers during the second World War.
Syrian Kurdish officials had recently said the Rmeilan airstrip was being used by U.S. military helicopters for logistics and deliveries.
Then make it Clarissa Ward's piece on a secret U.S. airstrip being built in northern Syria to help fight ISIS.
On landing, Ganière spots Simpson, near the dirt airstrip chatting with a group of workers in Sango, the local language.
Wendy hosts a bed and breakfast, Ron is a small engine mechanic and runs ground control at the local airstrip.
Norman's Cay is where the closest airstrip to Saddleback Cay is located, making the private island accessible for private flights.
Eventually more money was added for a hovercraft, improvements to the airstrip, and 17 miles of road to the hovercraft.
So far, it has built one airstrip with two more under construction on them, with re-fuelling and storage facilities.
Meeting Kennedy operatives at a local airstrip, he was greeted with a nice surprise: thirty-five thousand dollars in cash.
Helicopters and small airplanes arrive on the dirt airstrip several times a week, bringing in aid workers and health personnel.
Between 2012 and 2016, China significantly upgraded the installation with an airstrip and expanded the island's infrastructure, as seen below.
China has used dredged sand to expand the original reef into an artificial island big enough to hold an airstrip.
The flight wasn't without complications, including a burning antenna and a mistaken landing at a secret military airstrip in Cairo.
"We've long been told by sources inside Mosul that ISIS has sabotaged the airstrip there to prevent its use," Wedeman said.
The machinery heard at an airstrip, for example, is sourced and edited from recordings made at a construction site in Chicago.
There was a permanent airstrip, then the longest in the Southern Hemisphere, plus roads, a swimming pool, accommodation and railway access.
He spent the following day at a military airstrip in Port Harcourt, the regional capital, debating whether to go up again.
An airstrip, jutting out of two ends of the small island, hosts Chinese fighter aircraft and is home to a military garrison.
Also, according to advanced eye test metrics, his wingspan is about as long as the airstrip at the end of Fast 216.
The airstrip, later named Henderson Field, would become an important launching point for Allied air attacks during the Pacific island hopping campaign.
Cover: Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by soldiers during a presentation at the Navy's airstrip in Mexico City February 22, 2014.
The band office has solar panels, but a diesel power plant drones away near the gravel airstrip; mail is delivered on Thursdays.
Serviced by a 1,200 m airstrip, other features on Itu Aba include a hospital, solar generators, a temple, wharf and a lighthouse.
In recent weeks, Chinese military commentators have indicated that Beijing would like to begin developing the shoal, possibly by adding an airstrip.
Ultimately Stevens and Young helped create a $21997 million compromise, with funding for a relocated airstrip and a new King Cove clinic.
The sound was like that of an airstrip crossed with a dentist's office, a cacophony of whooshing, suctioning, beeping, clicking, and rumbling.
Further, China had illegally built an artificial island on Mischief Reef, complete with a military airstrip, in waters belonging to the Philippines.
He was a celebrity in Keewaywin, which consists of little more than an airstrip, nursing station, school, general store and post office.
We landed on an airstrip outside the first town on the WhatsApp message; there was but a small runway in the forest.
He told us about being on the airstrip and being shot at when all these wonderful people including congressman Ryan were murdered.
In the late 1980s, the United States spent $3.2 million renovating the airstrip in an effort to bolster Niger's government against Col.
Mr. Flores had been unnerved during his trip when the small plane he was on landed at a sharply inclined makeshift airstrip.
But that's not surprising, considering it requires a three-day overland trek to reach (an easier method is via the local airstrip).
Through a network of contacts, he learned that Mr. Allen had been helped to a rural airstrip built by missionaries years ago.
Earlier this year, India signed a 20-year pact with the Seychelles to build an airstrip and a jetty for its navy.
And the largest of the Paracels, Woody Island, sports an airstrip, hangars and a [detachment] of HQ-9 surface-to-air missile batteries.
Analysts say an airstrip China is building on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratlys could be used for both civilian and military jets.
This year's program, which opened on a dusty airstrip in Senegal's central city of Thies, involves around 1,700 mostly African special operation forces.
Adani had initially said it would spend about $12 billion on the project, which also included a new railway line and an airstrip.
One major variable is whether China will build up and install an airstrip on Scarborough Shoal, less than 150 miles from Subic Bay.
Jennie Grossinger, the formidable daughter of the founder, oversaw its dominance as a major hotel that had its own airstrip and post office.
The night of June 6, 21966, had been quiet, and guarding the airstrip at Delta sector was supposed to be an easy watch.
After they were hauled to safety, Mr. Guzmán exited the tunnel, hopped aboard an all-terrain vehicle and rode it to an airstrip.
Nearby live the Yekwana people, also quite isolated, but with an airstrip that allows for the regular delivery of Western food and medicine.
Of course, if you are one of the Carnegies, you can land a small plane on the meadow that serves as an airstrip.
Kenya's military said it killed at least four terrorists Sunday in repelling the attack on an airstrip located near a US military base.
Once more the Bikinians were uprooted -- this time to Kwajalein, where they lived in tents next to a cement airstrip used by Americans.
Having arrived at a Singaporean airstrip in garish Ferraris and Lamborghinis, the bridal group head off by private jet to a tropical island.
Trump responded with a cruise missile strike against a Syrian military airstrip and renewed calls for Assad's ouster, but that's been about it.
In the 70s, Chali, the town marked out by this withered sign, was home to a humming market and even a functioning airstrip.
Sir Howard shortlisted three options: a new airstrip to the north-west of Heathrow, a runway extension there, or a new runway at Gatwick.
There are upsides for the United States, starting with the realisation of the vision of the UK as "Airstrip One" in George Orwell's "1984".
Accordingly, Beijing's purported aim of turning the shoal into a military airstrip within missile range of Manila has, in effect, been put on ice.
No wonder Gulf states desire greater US involvement, and Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, praised the US Tomahawk strike on a Syrian airstrip.
Unless you make a few days trek to the nearest road, this airstrip is the only access to the isolated mountain community of Simikot.
It landed fully-armed jet fighters on an expanded airstrip on Woody Island in November, and reinforced hangars have been completed, regional diplomats said.
China has built a military airstrip, naval berths and sports fields on the island, but the tribunal ruled that it was in Philippine waters.
The small plane, filled with a ton of Colombian cocaine, ran out of fuel as it approached the secret airstrip near Agua Prieta, Mexico.
In one, the distinctive shape of a jet fighter is clearly visible on what appears to be a mock airstrip in a remote Chinese desert.
You'll still need a pilot's license to fly the PAL-V Liberty, and it needs a small airfield or airstrip to take off and land.
Ryan and four others were killed when people loyal to the Jonestown temple run by Jim Jones opened fire at an airstrip near the settlement.
Hundreds of displaced people gathered at an airstrip on Treasure Cay hoping to catch a ride on a private plane, only to be turned away.
The animals were in fact Shabab fighters, who had infiltrated the base's outer perimeter — a poorly defended fence line — before heading to the base's airstrip.
" The resort's thin, basic airstrip is now bustling as five different planes from different groups and private citizens unload "as much as they can carry.
Woody Island, known as Yongxing in China, has a military airstrip that juts out both ends of the small island and is used by fighter aircraft.
China landed fully-armed jet fighters on an expanded airstrip on Woody Island in November, and reinforced hangars have been completed, regional diplomats have told Reuters.
The island came with a three-bedroom main house, a guest cottage, sheep-shearing shed, airstrip, permanent power supply and mobile phone reception, the ABC reported.
Half a mile outside the camp complex, on the outskirts of the town of Dadaab, the airstrip is a wire-fenced runway without a single building.
Police official Suresh Bikram Shah says the plane took off from a mountain airstrip carrying cargo and lost contact with the tower a few minutes later.
The manoeuvres appear to be a response to Philippine construction work on the island, to repair the airstrip and build a beaching ramp for small craft.
Travis Major was trying to take a photo of the the twin-prop aircraft taking off from a remote airstrip 140 miles north of Deadhorse, Alaska.
These disparate but connected "landscapes" include a removed mountaintop converted into an airstrip for prison transport planes and a vendor who sells items to prison commissaries.
Surveillance aircraft, flying from the airstrip at Manda Bay, watch the border between Somalia and Kenya, a region of unforgiving terrain that has hindered ground operations.
The island has a beach for families, and it also has an adults-only beach called Serenity Bay, which is tucked away off an old airstrip.
Construction of the airstrip, which had begun before the attack, would take an additional three months to complete once work on it restarts, the company added.
Woody Island, known as Yongxing in China, has a military airstrip that juts out from both ends of the small island and is used by fighter aircraft.
Today it is Russian tourists who flock to Cam Ranh International Airport, with its American-built airstrip, on their way to the beaches of nearby Nha Trang.
President Trump's launch of 59 Tomahawk missiles to destroy one Syrian airstrip exacerbated an already complex situation in the Middle East, risking additional disruption of oil exports.
As the guys were laying the dynamite, my colleague Kaj Larsen and I stepped out onto the airstrip to shoot a quick segment explaining what was happening.
While China is not the only country to have an airstrip in the disputed waters, it's the only country to have one capable of handling a bomber.
READ: Satellite images suggest China 'building third airstrip' in South China Sea CNN's Chieu Luu in Hong Kong and Junko Ogura in Tokyo contributed to this report
Taiwan has just finished a $100 million port upgrade and built a new lighthouse on Itu Aba, which has its own airstrip, a hospital and fresh water.
China denies that, but it is hard to see why else it needs the long airstrip it is building on the Fiery Cross reef in the Spratlys.
To get it to market people carried concentrated ore on their heads through the jungle to an airstrip where small planes could land to carry it out.
The development has a saloon, a gym, a three-hole golf course, guesthouses, stables, an airstrip, and horse and snowmobile paths leading directly into forest and parkland.
Last month, Defence Minister Delfin Lorenzana said the Philippines would strengthen its facilities in the Spratlys by building a new port and paving an existing rough airstrip.
One of Ms. Coronel's brothers was waiting for him at the bodega with an A.T.V., which they rode to an airstrip in San Juan, according to testimony.
The airport Mr. Veke wants to upgrade was originally Henderson Field, the airstrip that thousands of American Marines in particular fought and died to capture and defend.
A fire broke out as a result of the breach and affected some fuel tanks at the airstrip, although the blaze was put out, the KDF said.
Also known as Itu Aba, Taiping island consists of little more than a 1,360 meter long airstrip bordered on two sides by palm trees and white sandy beaches.
Download an app called Airstrip and your Watch can gather all the information you need for a fetal non-stress test to monitor the health of your baby.
Many evacuees have been airlifted from the camps, using an airstrip owned by Shell Canada, on chartered and oil-company-owned aircraft, including at least one executive jet.
After making the secret overnight flight from Washington and touching down onto a pitch-black airstrip (because of security concerns), Trump stayed on the ground for three hours.
Surveying, soil testing and design work has begun, including on an airstrip, mining camp, access roads and the rail link, said Ron Watson, a spokesman for Adani Australia.
Luxury homes include a $149 million, 14-bed property in Colorado with staff quarters, a spa, bison pastures, an airstrip, a helipad - and geo-thermal heating and cooling.
The attack at the military airstrip at Manda Bay, Kenya, early Sunday involved small-arms and other hostile fire, according to a statement by the military's Africa Command.
When they departed, Harry dealt out generous tips and one staff member shed a tear while waving the couple off from the resort's private airstrip, the sources said.
A tiny, rugged fleck of land, roughly half a square mile, Kayangel has perhaps 60 year-round residents; there is no airstrip, and power and cell service are erratic.
The main objective of the fighting was a tiny airstrip that the Japanese were building at the western end of Guadalcanal, a speck of land in the Solomon Islands.
His luxury townhouse was adjacent to a private airstrip, even though a Namibian judge had restricted his travel and Alexander theoretically faced certain arrest if he left the country.
The second attack resulted in the death of the unidentified worker, who was contracted to a firm that is engaged in building an airstrip for the project, Anadarko said.
Three runways have recently been completed and China last month announced the first successful test landings of civilian airliners on the new 3,000-metre airstrip at Fiery Cross reef.
The absence of tax hikes may help win local approval, as some council members are concerned the water authority's acquisition of the airstrip could lead to higher water rates.
At the entrance to Airstrip Camp, down a long, unpaved road, men holding machine guns stood in the shade of a cinder-block hut, near a tattered Iraqi flag.
For Geoff Cobden, a pilot for the Royal Flying Doctor Service, that often means a nighttime landing or takeoff from the rough, packed-dirt airstrip of a cattle station.
Woody Island features an airstrip, helipads, 20 hangars for combat aircraft, J-10 and J-11 fighter jets, HQ-9 surface-to-air missiles, and anti-ship cruise missiles.
But senior operatives insisted on additional combat exercise and dry runs on an adjacent airstrip, and while they were carrying out that training, the plane took off for Yemen.
CreditCredit DARWIN, Australia — Patrick Cumaiyi boarded a small plane on the airstrip in Wadeye, one of Australia's most remote Aboriginal communities, and waved to his family with shackled hands.
And I did push a bright red button and watch the small jet find its way to that airstrip, descend, and put rubber to tarmac all on its own.
The second attack resulted in the death of the worker, who was contracted to a firm that is engaged in building an airstrip for the company's project, Anadarko said.
In other words, we have the engineers who can build the fighter jets but lack the airstrip, pilots, and everything else needed to make it work in real life.
EDT (0040 GMT on Friday), striking multiple targets - including the airstrip, aircraft and fuel stations - on the Shayrat Air Base, which the Pentagon says was used to store chemical weapons.
The aircraft, operated by domestic airline Silverstone Air, took off from the Lodwar airstrip in Kenya's northwest and was heading to the capital Nairobi when the incident occurred Monday morning.
Naturally, you'll still need a pilot's license to fly it (and a driver's license to drive it), and it needs a small airfield or airstrip to take off and land.
Iraqi officials said they will move the headquarters for the liberation of Mosul to Qarayyah and its airstrip will bring Iraqi and coalition aircraft that much closer to the city.
The family lived in Hacienda Napoles, a vast and tony ranch with 210 artificial lakes, swimming pools, three zoos full of exotic animals, an airstrip, gas station and 214,215 employees.
Interest was further intensified by the global mining giant's recent application to build an airstrip in Paterson - roughly halfway between Perth and Darwin, indicating it's in for the long haul.
Those who work there say the winds never move the dunes, yet they quickly cover anything that has cut through them, such as the airstrip, which must be cleared regularly.
Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, with its "rotting nineteenth-century houses" and "crazy garden walls sagging in all directions," is defined by war—a war that never ends.
We hired a pilot who took us to a remote airstrip and then hopped on motorcycles to ride for hours over gnarly dirt roads that few cars dare to travel.
One day when Norm and his wife, Doris, were flying from their Arizona ranch, their daughter Sandra, then 8, went with others to see them off from the dirt airstrip.
In the cockpit, the captain, a former United States Navy fighter pilot, fought the plane into submission and finally managed an emergency landing at a remote airstrip in northwestern Australia.
The gambling resort slashed jobs, sold assets ranging from filing cabinets to city vehicles, and devised a plan to sell an abandoned airstrip to the water authority for $110 million.
Another Silverstone aircraft carrying 55 people skidded off the runway at a local airstrip in Nairobi and slammed into trees, leaving some of its passengers injured earlier in October, officials said.
Iraqi officials say they will move the headquarters for the liberation of Mosul to Al-Qayarra, and its airstrip will bring Iraqi and coalition aircraft that much closer to the city.
The incident occurred Wednesday when the landing gear of a US observation flight malfunctioned and the plane had to make an unplanned landing in a Russian airstrip near the Chinese border.
In November 2014, I was in the Amazon rainforest in Peru, filming an anti-drug trafficking police force as they prepared to blow up an illegal airstrip used by cocaine smugglers.
Leo Ryan was shot and killed at an airstrip in Guyana after he and two dozen others traveled to investigate the Jonestown cult headed by Jim Jones, which was based there.
Kendjam sat alongside a glass-clear river, the Irirí, with a dozen traditional houses next to a grass airstrip and a red rock formation jutting several hundred feet above the treetops.
Then the artillery was everywhere, the surface of the airstrip around him bubbling like a boiling stew, and they stayed in the trench until the sun had set two more times.
I ate a quarter of a bagel, applied a motion-sickness patch, and boarded the team bus to ride up to an airstrip at Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire.
The couple's adventures included visits to a zoo filled with kangaroos, and to an airstrip where Norwood – a pilot – took the controls of a World War II-era Russian trainer in flight.
Sáenz claims he had received an invitation from an unnamed person to hop on a plane that deposited him on a remote airstrip in Chiapas, where he was presented with the codex.
A week before the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rican police found millions of water bottles that were never delivered to survivors at an airstrip near the island's east coast.
Though al-Shabaab is not allied with Hezbollah, Sunday's attack at a remote airstrip near a US military installation shows just how exposed US forces can be to foes with hostile intent.
Mr. Broomell and his neighbors have worried that the paving over of 250 acres for the creation of this airstrip might adversely affect the area's bird life — perhaps even eradicating it altogether.
Before Saturday's 11-mile (18-km) ceremonial run to Campbell Airstrip, thousands of well-wishers lined the streets of the state's largest city to cheer the racers, many of whom are local celebrities.
Local historian Vanessa Seekee, who has studied the battalion's history, said Horn Island was the base for Australia's most northerly airstrip, which was vital for the Allied forces in the Asia Pacific theater.
Where the salmon once swam would sit an enormous coal mine, surrounded by an access road, a 10,22005-foot elevated coal conveyor, an airstrip, a logistics center, and a brand new export terminal.
"What we had to go through, with the darkened plane, with all windows closed," he said of his descent in a dimmed Air Force One to an airstrip at Al Asad Air Base.
The idea is that a whole bunch of Marines would hop some planes to the area, climb in their tanks or whatever as they leave the airstrip, and then head off to battle.
The next morning, a military plane flew us to an airstrip in northern Syria, where we were met by a Special Operations team that would shuttle us around via armored vehicles and helicopters.
The sale of the airstrip, known as Bader Field, to the water authority attracted controversy because while it would help the city's coffers, it would add more debt to the Municipal Utilities Authority.
An American with an airstrip and a plane opens a world of shady deals, double-crossings and miscalculations, unleashing a domestic tragedy and a cultural apocalypse as old mores give way to greed.

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