As the temple was to the Roman city, so the runway is to the Tennessee aerotropolis.
So the runway look was dark and narrow, from the David Bowie felt fedora through the skinny Jagger pants.
If growth were to freeze at this point they'd have 15 months or so of runway.
They get away with it because they are a fresh, innovative disruptor — but this only buys them so much runway.
The Shuttle orbiters had no on-board lights, due to the difficulty of designing landing lights to survive re-entry, and so the runway was lit by high-intensity xenon arc lamps to guide the orbiter in.
It really wasn't until I received a call that Lady Bunny wasn't a real man, so "Project Runway" wouldn't be able to film her as a he [laughs].
Enter the magic of the catapult, which adds a whole lot of speed to an aircraft very quickly, enabling it to take off with just 300 feet or so of runway.
At Westchester Airport, operations were off and on, alternating every half hour so that runways could be cleared, "They can only have a half-inch on the runway before they have to broom it off," said Susan Tolchin, a spokeswoman for Andrew J. Spano, the county executive.
As Mr. Swift sees it, so-called "runway movies" are a "piece of product" developed and copyrighted in the United States, but made in another country, thereby depriving thousands of American workers of their livelihood.
Later, they wanted to bring the planes - and prosperity - back, so built runways, put fires along them to mimic landing lights, and made wooden headsets to look like headphones.
