Sentence examples for first airstrip from inspiring English sources

With fees from port traffic, he laid down the nation's first airstrip.

If you're an experienced flyer, you should look into the chance to land your plane at the First Flight airstrip, where the Wright brothers themselves took off.

Work on the first new airstrip (called Wama Drome) began on 23 September after the site was cleared.

Its first product, the AirStrip OB, was introduced in 2008.

The airstrip – the first by China on the islands it claims in the area – has been paved and taxiways have been built, according to the images published by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI).

The Afghans said they did not want the base's airstrip, so First Lt. Carolynn Aranha, a 32-year-old Marine from Oregon, took out about 50 Marines to rip up the 5,412-foot-long 5,412-foot-long 5,412-foot-longt night under floodlights to aread the pofnding hard of the day.

Now its runway – at one point the fifth busiest UK-operated airstrip – is expected to handle commercial flights.

Just as this correspondent was about to visit southern Somalia with people from the UN's World Food Programme, the trip was cancelled when two of the agency's workers were shot dead and a third died on an airstrip waiting for medical help.

First the garrison lost the airstrip, which meant it could only be reinforced by parachute.

Ethiopian fighter planes bombed the airport here today, taking aim at a military airstrip in the first air raid on Eritrea's capital since the opening blows of the war between the two nations in 1998.

The first attempt to capture the airstrip was checked by an enemy bunker complex.