landing field

Example Sentences

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But just as a scene begins to flatten, an aircraft crashes into a tree or flips cleanly onto its back on a landing field, instantly reviving the narrative.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2022

During his term on the council, Kanno helped lead the early push for the creation of Mile Square Park, now a sprawling regional park that was built on a naval landing field.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2017

Day of the fliers' return to the U. S., "Cissie" Patterson's sprightly Washington Times appeared on the streets with a four-column, front-page picture purporting to show the plane on the landing field in Minneapolis.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pilot, a flying-school reject named So Potra who also happened to be the lover of one of Sihanouk's 13 children, escaped by winging off to a landing field somewhere in Communist-held eastern Cambodia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Iwo Jima, Admiral Nimitz decided, was the best place for such an emergency landing field.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac