Sentence examples for the same airstrip from inspiring English sources

But it was something that an aid official had said a couple of days earlier that had me entranced; a few years after the war's conclusion, the official said, the same airstrip had been used for a dramatic evacuation of White Russian refugees, fleeing the Communist forces of Mao Zedong.

At the same time, the agency is building a desert airstrip so that it can begin flying armed drones over Yemen.

In Santa Helena, a settlement on the edge of the Montes Azules Nature Reserve, the airstrip is the main drag.

Later, just as KLM flight 4805 prepared to take off from the single airstrip at Los Rodeos, the plane barreled into Pan American World Airways Pan Amm) flight 1736, which had been taxiing toward takeoff at the same time.

Yet again, flank from the West and stay at the end of the airstrip.

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

The cavalrymen overran the airstrip.

They have cleared all the people from the airstrip.

The numbers of soldiers guarding the airstrip has doubled since the plane, which alliance officials said contained American military personnel, landed at the airstrip on Sunday.

At the airstrip, the windsock drooped.

The group walked from the airstrip to Hill 192.