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Van Zandt purchased 278 acres of cotton fields east of 24th Street and south of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks and transformed them into a landing field.
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Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2024
And no ones sees that landing field more clearly than Michael O’Leary, Boeing’s disappointed customer, but still true believer.
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
The three were assigned to the 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, based at Fort Moore, Ga., a unit that builds roads, landing fields and other facilities for American troops overseas.
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Peter Baker, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
The site is actually the birthplace of America’s space program, and is home not just to a space capsule landing field, but the latest in weapons tech, from lasers to electromagnetic railguns.
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Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023
The ring was an airship landing field.
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David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
During an emergency action plan rehearsal at an Alabama high school, medical providers realized that a foot bridge to the life-flight helicopter’s emergency landing field wasn’t wide enough to support a gurney.
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Julie Washington, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2023
But just as a scene begins to flatten, an aircraft crashes into a tree or flips cleanly onto its back on a landing field, instantly reviving the narrative.
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Andrea Pitzer, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
Her friend decided to meet the pilots in the landing field.
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CNN, 25 Feb. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1920, in the meaning defined above
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“Landing field.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/landing%20field. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
landing field
noun
: a field where aircraft may land and take off
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