Sentence examples for foot runways from inspiring English sources

Originally built during World War II as a practice outlying field to two nearby Naval Air Station, it used to have four paved 4,000 foot runways, but was abandoned by the U.S. Navy in 1946.

These land features, in turn, have been transformed into "unsinkable aircraft carriers" replete with 10,000 foot runways, missile-guidance capabilities, and sophisticated sonar and avionics with which to track enemy shipping and aircraft - forcing an "under-shipped" US to futilely send "freedom of navigation" patrols into the area.

Several years and $61.4 million later, the city opened its concrete welcome mat, a new 7,000 foot runway, last November — two months after the airport lost scheduled air service altogether.

It has a 15,000 foot runway.

Its 4,000 foot runway will be extended to 6,000 feet to accommodate airline aircraft.

The new airport will have a 10,000-foot runway, longer than the two 7,000-foot runways at LaGuardia Airport in New York.

The leading candidate is Al Udeid air base in Qatar, which has vast hangars and 15,000-foot runways, among the longest in the region.

No. 4, an RAAF airfield named Newton after Flight Lieutenant William Ellis Newton, had two parallel 6000 feet by 100 feet runways surfaced with bitumen.

It will use a 12,000-foot runway.

The air base has a 15,000-foot runway, one of the longest in the Middle East.

The 10,000-foot runway has not had a major improvement in 20 years, authority officials said.