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That’s why aside from continuing to build some sort of new culture and keeping everyone healthy, the next two months are all about gliding onto the landing strip in smooth fashion in July, setting things up for a run in 2025-26.
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Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 7 Feb. 2025
Shortly afterwards, the aircraft came down on the runway in a belly landing, touching down about 1,310 yards along the 3,062 yard runway and sliding into the embankment at the end of the landing strip.
—Ju-Min Park and Hongji Kim, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
Just after the war, as part of Operation Nanook, the Americans expanded the existing installation with a gravel landing strip as part of an upgrade to a new and larger weather station.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 10 Feb. 2025
Only two people survived after the 15-year-old 737-800 Boeing plane run by Jeju Air skidded across the landing strip without landing gear and crashed into a concrete barrier containing antennas, bursting into flames.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
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Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 7 Feb. 2025
Shortly afterwards, the aircraft came down on the runway in a belly landing, touching down about 1,310 yards along the 3,062 yard runway and sliding into the embankment at the end of the landing strip.
—Ju-Min Park and Hongji Kim, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
Just after the war, as part of Operation Nanook, the Americans expanded the existing installation with a gravel landing strip as part of an upgrade to a new and larger weather station.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 10 Feb. 2025
Only two people survived after the 15-year-old 737-800 Boeing plane run by Jeju Air skidded across the landing strip without landing gear and crashed into a concrete barrier containing antennas, bursting into flames.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Landing strip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landing%20strip. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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