emergency landing strip

To the east was the emergency landing strip and the abandoned aircraft.

"We were just about to bug out for an emergency landing strip.

The airbase also included an emergency landing strip, "Tobago".

The field immediately became an emergency landing strip for Allied aircraft even though fighting continued in the nearby town until August 1944.

Because of wartime military air transportation concerns, the airport acted as an emergency landing strip until its tarmac was completed.

The town also has its own airstrip which is used mainly for light aircraft or as an emergency landing strip for larger planes.

The airstrip was improved to become an emergency landing strip for aircraft flying the "Hump" route.

The airbase is served by a 9,800 foot long runway, and there are two parallel taxiways that could be used as emergency landing strips.

The Americans, after capturing the island, weakened the Japanese early warning system, and used it as an emergency landing strip for damaged bombers.

An emergency landing strip on Midway Atoll for trans-Pacific flights remains open.

To support the training at the main facility, Yucca Army Airfield operated several emergency landing strips.

It is a transport hub for personnel and supplies going to N2S2 and also serves as an emergency landing strip.

During World War II, an emergency landing strip was built in Dyersburg.

Of these, three have been used as emergency landing strips, while two had been a frequently-used airfield with two hangars.

But an emergency landing strip several miles away was covered by dark clouds that had rolled in from the west at altitudes as low as 1,000 feet.

It was later used as an emergency landing strip for RAF Sculthorpe, before final closure in 1961.

Built in 1940, Palmdale Airport was operated by the United States government, primarily as an emergency landing strip.

Although there were several airstrips other than Pochentong, they were only used temporarily as emergency landing strips and never as secondary airbases.

And she saw the NASA emergency landing strip when she visited Easter Island.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service uses the highway as an emergency landing strip and sections of the highway are signed to that effect.

Emergency Landing Strips (ELS)

The eruption obliterated all remains of the South Pacifier Emergency landing strip, although some evidence of remains still are visible in aerial imagery.

The assignment to build the emergency landing strip on Yo Do fell to ACB 1's Det. George.

After becoming a household name, Knight worked with the Postal Service and local civic leaders to set up a system of navigational beacons and emergency landing strips.

On 4 April 2010 18 year old pilot Patrick Humphries made world headlines by using the normally busy highway as an emergency landing strip after experiencing aircraft problems.