airstrip

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• A straight 24-hour push brought them from the summit down to the airstrip at the 7,300-foot Kahiltna base camp.

• Our puddle-jumper lands on a small airstrip lined with solar panels.

• Often we’d spend longs days at the Toledo Airport, a tiny municipal airstrip where he and his friends would parachute out of small, dubious, single-engined airplanes while I would pack parachutes.

• 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.