airstrip

Noun

Meaning

an airfield without normal airport facilities

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After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield. Tom Hooper

A 1,200-metre (3,900 ft) airstrip provides the island's link with the outside world. Source: Internet

According to First Minister Tyler Edmunds, that study was finalized this spring, and found the current airstrip was a write-off. Source: Internet

A radio signal that triggers navigational beacons could be a landing aid system for an airstrip or helicopter pad that is intended to be low-profile. Source: Internet

An air force exercise simulating that air bases throughout Taiwan have been destroyed and are forced to use a major highway as an airstrip. Source: Internet

Also built in this period were a dock, a customs warehouse, an airstrip, and a police headquarters. Source: Internet

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