landing strip

noun

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The crash site is close to Spicewood Airport, a lakeside landing strip beside a small complex of aircraft hangars. Chase Rogers, Austin American-Statesman, 23 Apr. 2024 Boom Supersonic Lower speeds means the Overture can function over land without sonic booms and will be able to land on the same runways typical commercial aircraft like the Boeing 737 or Airbus A380 use, not needing the nearly 10,000-ft (3,048-m) landing strips that the Concorde required. New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2024 Swooping around the harbor and nose-diving down to one of the world’s shortest landing strips, the 2,100-foot runway is bookended by a hill on one side, the bay on the other—and turboprop planes are the only way in. Lane Nieset, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Jan. 2024 Zambada Garcia said he was handcuffed, driven to a landing strip in a pickup truck, and forced into a private plane that delivered him to U.S. soil. Greg Wehner, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for landing strip 

Word History

First Known Use

1930, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of landing strip was in 1930

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“Landing strip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/landing%20strip. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.

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