The word 'airstrip' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a runway or landing strip used by aircraft. For example, "The small private airstrip was only big enough for a single plane."
Initial assessments found the airstrip sustained "minor to light" damage, and is open to medical emergency aircraft but not public flights.
Motorbikes weave between the large mining trucks and NGO vehicles, as locals make their way to the huge market; the airstrip is in the middle of the town, making for some scary landings.
Return flights to Annai airstrip from Georgetown cost from $235 (transguyana.net).net
There is a great photograph of Norman Parkinson's wife Wenda on a Nairobi airstrip, taking shade under the wing of a plane.
Gabourel often trains at his local airstrip – early in the morning, when no planes are due to use it – and the announcer incited further support for the underdog by declaring: "It may be hot for us today but for a lot of these guys it's pure Baltic".
More than 100km of roads, a 2km airstrip, barracks and field hospitals were all built.
These include an airstrip that could, when finished, reach a length of 3km (nearly 2 miles) on Fiery Cross Reef (the pictures above show the reef today compared with its appearance in August).
And as Congo crumbles, it grows harder to plunder: operations at Ituri's vast Kilomoto gold mine, for example, have virtually ceased since local peasants started digging up its airstrip and panning the dirt for ore.The UN is scratching its head for a solution.
There is a madcap drive from the airstrip to the city: those who reach the market first receive the best price.Mogadishu's marketplaces, Bakara and Hamarweyne, bustle with enterprise.
The United Arab Emirates, famously, has set up a "five-star camp", complete with satellite telephones, security guards and its own airstrip.
This week America considered sending planes and warships to the South China Sea, near the disputed Spratly Islands where China is building huge artificial islands, and what appears to be a military airstrip.
