Sentence examples for jet runway from inspiring English sources

Polar visionaries once imagined an all-weather landing strip for wheeled jet aircraft at Marble Point near McMurdo Sound; one or more hotels nearby, perhaps in one of the McMurdo dry valleys and served by helicopter from the jet runway; and possibly even a centre for skiing and mountaineering.

At Idlewild Airport a giant vacuum cleaner is used daily to clear jet runways of debris.

Yet they are likely to persist — little cracks in that big jet's runway, particulate matter in its fuel — and we ignore them at our peril.

But with the FAA's blessing, Clingman artfully sidesteps the charter designation by not landing his jets on runways shorter than 5,000 feet (1,524 meters).

But with the FAA's blessing, Clingman artfully sidesteps the charter designation by not landing his jets on runways shorter than 5,000 feet.

For the next several months, I lived a life of jet-setting, runways, addiction and rehab.

Jet Slides off Runway CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan . 23(AP) -- A US Airways jet skidded off the runway after landing at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport on Saturday as a storm blanketed the area with snow and freezing rain.

Photo: An Ariana Afghan Airlines jet overran the runway in Istanbul last month.

2ad0f859-db6d-411e-a4a5-21cb91702195 THE private jet approached the runway over the dusty hills of the central Arizona desert.

Her jet missed the runway, shearing off its landing gear and sustaining severe wing and nose damage.

Any connection between that incident and the jet overunning the runway at São Paulo airport on July 17 seems tenuous at best.