Definition of landing strip in US English:
landing strip
nounˈlandiNG ˌstripˈlændɪŋ ˌstrɪp
An airstrip.
Example sentencesExamples
- Witnesses said the aircraft crashed less than 60 yards from the landing strip.
- The transport lowered its landing gear and touched down on the assigned landing strip with a screech as its wheels made contact.
- These three bases were backed up by seven auxiliary fields and a number of emergency landing strips that had been cut out of the surrounding jungle and bush.
- The lines scratched in the desert, however, are much longer than airplane landing strips, and the soil there is much too sandy and soft to be used by airplanes.
- The crew requested an emergency landing strip and permission was granted.
- The landing strip for winged aircraft did not even have a real control tower.
- The decision to base a new landing strip at the Essex airport is expected to be disputed by campaigners and a number of airlines, who have threatened legal action.
- Behind the new factory for a third of a mile workmen leveled off sagebrush and tumbleweeds for a landing strip just 2.5 times as wide as the Vega's wing span.
- We lost all navigational and wireless aids and spent the next hour or so seeking out emergency landing strips, but those we located were underwater.
- The landing gear was a unique tripod set-up to offer resistance to the unimproved nature of most landing strips.
- Because the museum is based on an old RAF airfield, it has a suitable landing strip and hangars big enough to house the aircraft.
- A supershort landing strip ensures that flight crews at least are awake.
- I watched as we approached the airport landing strip.
- We were an emergency landing strip, and we had emergency landings.
- John, professional aviator that he is, rapidly scanned the surrounding territory for a likely landing strip.
- A flying club claims that its plans to replace a grass runway with a hard-surfaced landing strip will reduce noise disturbance to householders in nearby villages.
- Apparently there was a landing strip along the highway.
- By the end of June, excluding an emergency landing strip, ten airfields had been built in the beachhead area.
- The first challenge would be to find the make-shift landing strip.
- I had to streak down and do a quick makeshift landing at a convenient landing strip.