runway
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The draft plan, a spokesperson said, sets out the use of existing runway capacity alongside "significantly enhanced" passenger facilities over the next 15 years.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
TMO: Speaking of pleasure, how do you treat yourself after you premiere a collection on the runway?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
TMO: Your runway shows feel less like presentations of clothes and more like fully realized theatrical worlds, complete with characters, sets and a beginning, middle and end.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
“Do you want to land on a runway that needs repair?” she asks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
At the snow-covered airfield were three dugouts, a runway, and a taxiway.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Airlines, regulators and aerospace manufacturers have worked to stamp out deadly accidents resulting from overshooting runways, mistakenly flying into terrain or failures in aircraft structures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Whether the airport can in fact legally be constructed is being contested in the courts even as the runways get tarmacked.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Miami’s Runway 30 has a safety buffer but not an Engineering Materials Arresting System, a crushable bed designed to stop aircraft that overrun runways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The airport closed all runways and issued a full ground stop after the incident.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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