airdrome
Example Sentences
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At Brussels airport, 60% of flights were canceled, while the Charleroi airdrome was shut down.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2022
After more than twelve hours in the air, they made an emergency landing on Sicily, at an airdrome held by British forces.
From Time ● Jan. 6, 2016
The setting, at the height of World War II, is a hotel in Lincolnshire, a gathering spot for Royal Air Force fighters stationed at a nearby airdrome.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2014
U.S. bombers drummed over Crete, started fires at Malemi airdrome, which is the depot for troop-carrying Junkers-52s on their way from Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
The airdrome had been bombed eight months before, and knobby slabs of white stone rubble had been bulldozed into flat- topped heaps on both sides of the entrance through the wire fence surrounding the field.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
