The airstrip serving Lamu Island, Kenya, for example, lacks electricity and, as a result, computers.
For example, they could be encouraged to land on airstrips in Malta or neighboring countries.
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.
HOW IT WORKS AirStrip's technology connects a hospital's various bedside devices — an E.K.G. machine, a ventilator, a fetal heart monitor, for example — to its server and then transmits the data to a smartphone or tablet.
Japanese officials see China upsetting the established regional order by, for example, by challenging Japan's control of the Senkaku islands (known as the Diaoyu islands in China) and building airstrips on disputed reefs in the South China Sea.
For example, shortly after Ethiopian troops crossed into Somalia in late 2006 to dislodge an Islamist regime in Mogadishu, the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command quietly sent operatives and AC-130 gunships to an airstrip near the Ethiopian town of Dire Dawa.
One recent Saturday afternoon, for example, Bryan Hennessy banked his red-and-white Citabria above the blue-green waters around Orcas Island, setting up the single-engine plane for its final approach to the quiet airstrip at the apex of Orcas, a horseshoe-shaped island northwest of Seattle.
For transportation networks for example, this could mean having multiple routes to critical or essential facilities, predetermined appropriate sites for helipads or temporary airstrips, and storage sites for heavy equipment all located outside of the hazard zone.
There is a private airstrip for jets.
There was the story of Oliver North's airstrip for the contras, on the Santa Elena peninsula, and how Santa Elena became part of the A.C.G.
