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Boom Supersonic Lower speeds means the Overture can function over land without sonic booms and will be able to land on the same runways typical commercial aircraft like the Boeing 737 or Airbus A380 use, not needing the nearly 10,000-ft (3,048-m) landing strips that the Concorde required.
—New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2024
Swooping around the harbor and nose-diving down to one of the world’s shortest landing strips, the 2,100-foot runway is bookended by a hill on one side, the bay on the other—and turboprop planes are the only way in.
—Lane Nieset, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Jan. 2024
Zambada Garcia said he was handcuffed, driven to a landing strip in a pickup truck, and forced into a private plane that delivered him to U.S. soil.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2024
He was then thrown into the back of a pickup truck and taken to a landing strip.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 30 July 2024
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First Known Use
1930, in the meaning defined above
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“Landing strip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/landing%20strip. Accessed 12 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
landing strip
noun
: airstrip
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