Sentence examples for rough airstrips from inspiring English sources

Like the C-130 it can fly very slowly and land on rough airstrips near the battlefield, yet it also comes close to the speed of the jet-engined C-17 and exceeds its range.

Operating from rough airstrips was also trialled at nearby RAF Bircham Newton, where the aircraft proved adept at traversing boggy ground and taking off from a variety of temporary ground coverings.

The plane started taxiing over the rough airstrip and was quickly airborne.

They are then swiftly transferred to a smaller plane, and flown to a rough airstrip near Caia.

Swinging the plane back towards to rough airstrip at Buffalo Springs, Douglas-Hamilton cautions against hyperbole, instead urging rigorous data gathering and analysis.

As they arrived at Camp Rhino from its rough airstrip in an ambulance, the two less seriously injured marines -- one with his left hand wrapped in bandages, the other with an intravenous bottle attached to his arm -- were met by dozens of their comrades, who stood shoulder to shoulder, forming a cordon into the warehouse where doctors treated the two.

One of the Dakotas blew a tyre touching down on the rough airstrip; another tried to land on one wheel.

The credit for getting to Kaiapit went first to the USAAF aircrews that managed to make a difficult landing on the rough airstrip at Leron.

The Australian 2/6th Independent Company flew in to the Markham Valley from Port Moresby in 13 USAAF C-47 Dakotas, making a difficult landing on a rough airstrip.

In April 1975, a single Jaguar was used to test the aircraft's rough airstrip capacity, by landing and taking off multiple times from the M55 motorway, the final test flight was conducted with a full weapons load; the ability was never used in service but was considered useful as improvised runways might be the only runways left available in a large-scale European conflict.

The second half of the CD veers from snow-hippie styles to the more rough and eclectic, like Airstrip One's alt-rock and Five Style Fist's indie-rap.