landing field

Example Sentences

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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.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2022

During his term on the council, Kanno helped lead the early push for the creation of Mile Square Park, now a sprawling regional park that was built on a naval landing field.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2017

At one end of a surfaced, oval landing field, with 10,000-ft. runways, will curve a full mile of administration buildings, restaurants, hangars.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pilot, a flying-school reject named So Potra who also happened to be the lover of one of Sihanouk's 13 children, escaped by winging off to a landing field somewhere in Communist-held eastern Cambodia.

From Time Magazine Archive

I left them here so as not to have them on me if I was caught during the 50 mile trek to the landing field.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein