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landing field

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as in landing strip

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Recent Examples of landing field The site is actually the birthplace of America’s space program, and is home not just to a space capsule landing field, but the latest in weapons tech, from lasers to electromagnetic railguns. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023 But thanks to Andrew Cuomo’s time as governor, the once awful Third World landing field in Queens now matches Fiorello the man in superlatives. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2025 Van Zandt purchased 278 acres of cotton fields east of 24th Street and south of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks and transformed them into a landing field. — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2024 Across the street from the resort was the Chicagoland Airport, once a satellite landing field during World War II for Glenview Naval Air Station. — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for landing field

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Those who don’t want to drive to Roy’s can actually fly into the desert landing strip behind the cafe (which was apparently one of California’s first airfields of any kind).

— Joe Yogerst, CNN Money, 27 May 2026
Bees evolved eyes tuned to floral landing strips painted in wavelengths that humans can’t detect.

— Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026

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German media reports say Kaufbeuren will host the system’s radar installation, while the interceptor launchers for the battery are expected to be stationed at the nearby Lechfeld air base.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 5 July 2026
The city has a sprawling air base and is home to an infantry division.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 June 2026

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