Sentence examples for remote airfield from inspiring English sources

The helicopter raid against the compound of the Taliban's top leader and an assault by paratroops on a remote airfield were just the beginning of more to come.

Opposition parties were banned and their leaders jailed or driven into exile; the press was muzzled.Internationally, Mr Meles made friends with America, allowing it to base unarmed drones at a remote airfield.

A senior American official suggested that American forces had not retained control of a remote airfield 50 miles southwest of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, but could secure it again in the future.

At the same time about 60 miles to the southwest, Army Rangers who had loaded onto transport planes in nearby Oman parachuted into the second main target, a remote airfield.

Under private contracts known to only a few members of the United States Congress, these specialists -- all working for American companies -- have flown spray planes and helicopters, trained and advised Colombian military personnel, repaired high-tech machinery and helped pave remote airfield runways.

Of all the many theories about what happened to MH370, the idea that it might have been diverted to a remote airfield and its passengers taken off, seems the least plausible.

The project highlights "tarmac transfers" – occasions on which two planes involved in rendition met on remote airfields.

Older piston-engine airliners often soldiered on as firefighting tankers, while many others shuttled passengers and cargo from remote airfields to various destinations.

He has travelled the world tracking down items to add to his collection, flying into remote airfields, following up unlikely leads, throwing himself into hair-raising adventures in the pursuit of historic objets.

Shortly after the suicide hijackings on Sept. 11, auditors looking into aviation security discovered that dozens of Forest Service tanker planes used to drop flame-retardant chemicals on forest fires were open to theft because they were often left unattended at remote airfields "and could be attractive to terrorists wishing to disperse biological or chemical weapons".

More than 50,000 km of survey lines were flown with a Basler DC-3 between March 24 and May 10 , 2009 from remote airfields in Canada and Greenland.