landing strip

noun

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Fullerton Mayor Pro Tem Shana Charles told the Los Angeles Times more oversight is needed including making sure the entryway for the landing strip is safer and more education for pilots. Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2025 The 1,108 acres include a lodge, a primary residence, four secondary residences, four employee houses/living quarters, and six additional structures, including airplane hangars and a landing strip. Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 17 Dec. 2024 The crash site is close to Spicewood Airport, a lakeside landing strip beside a small complex of aircraft hangars. Chase Rogers, Austin American-Statesman, 23 Apr. 2024 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 See all Example Sentences for landing strip 

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First Known Use

1930, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of landing strip was in 1930

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“Landing strip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/landing%20strip. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.

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