Today, the island standard for luxury is the opulent Ocean Reef Club, a 4,000-acre 4,000-acreed resort featuring two championship golf courses, beach and tennis clubs, and its own airstrip for private jets.
As well as the lavish main ceremony, featuring acts such as Mika and My Chemical Romance, the broadcaster also hosted a huge after party in an old aircraft hanger on a disused military airstrip.
It will feature the construction of a dirt airstrip 20 miles from the Nicaraguan border; airborne drops of United States paratroopers, and maneuvers by Special Operations Forces, Mr. Sims said.
Or consider another passage in Nineteen Eighty-Four where Orwell describes a feature of life on Airstrip One (Britain).
The Antonovs, too, are said to have used the airstrip.
Out of the darkness of the airstrip, on to the plane, climbs a man with Asiatic features, wearing fur boots and fur-trimmed hood and gloves.
Gwalior and Kota have airstrips.
They have cleared all the people from the airstrip.
Emerging from an aircraft on Foula's airstrip (no planes at all in the old days), the actor John Laurie, who had a lead role in the feature shot 40 years earlier, greets each and every one of the surviving Shetlanders who took part with the profuse and obviously genuine warmth of someone recalling a life-enhancing experience.
This was Iwo Jima, a tiny speck 600 miles south of Tokyo, whose central features were two airstrips, a narrow two miles of beaches and Mount Suribachi, an extinct volcano whose core and surface became a rabbit warren for munitions storage, artillery and mortar points, hospitals and living accommodations for 22,000 defenders.
