Sentence examples for airstrip of from inspiring English sources

We flew into the rugged airstrip of Lukla, a white-knuckle experience in its own right.

Yesterday, it was that a government pilot sent to bomb Benghazi had instead unloaded his bombs on the airstrip of Sirt, Qaddafi's stronghold, and then headed to Tripoli, where he flew his plane, kamikaze style, into Qaddafi's base, killing himself.

He destroyed the Palestinian air force, such as it is, on the ground this week, wrecking Mr. Arafat's three helicopters and digging up the airstrip of Gaza International Airport.

I arrived in Zambia at the northern airstrip of Mfuwe, having flown in low over dry, bush-covered scrub and drove the hour and a half to Tafika Camp, on the eastern edges of South Luangwa National Park.

We reunited with our shadow on the airstrip of a base in Baghlan province that I am not permitted to name.

Despite the greatly diminished importance of plantations and the relocation of most of the airstrips out of the towns, those origins helped determine the existing urban layout.

My dad built a grass airstrip out of the jungle in 1978, which operated for several decades.

Initial construction of the airstrip north of the town of Jackson was completed in the 1930s.

The 11th Airborne established a base centered around the former Japanese airstrip on the outskirts of Lipa, the runway of which was lengthened by the 127th Airborne Engineer Battalion to accommodate C-47 transport aircraft.

The main party of the squadron departed Cape Gloucester on 17 April bound for Tadji airstrip on the mainland of New Guinea, and its Kitthawks arrived there on the 24th of the month.

They want to live near their mates and near their jobs, not out in the country.' Keith Annis, Redrow's regional planning director, who is leading the bid, said rapid public transport connections from the eco-town to Bognor and Littlehampton will solve that problem, making the field and airstrips of the Ford site the best available site in the locality.