Word: runway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radar, communications and weather station and a refueling base for R.A.F. planes on the London-Singapore run, Gan is little more than a runway in the middle of nowhere. It is so far out and so tiny it literally bristles with radio navigation aids to keep airplanes from missing it entirely...
...were no roads and no inhabitants. The only man-made attractions were two British-built naval guns that had been spiked by retreating Egyptians. This time, my Arkia Viscount made the flight from Tel Aviv in 70 minutes and glided to a powder-puff landing on a hard-topped runway long enough to accommodate a Boeing...
...Artist's manifold intentions, et cetera, since his rudimentary competence is now established, perhaps we should ask the larger question about why such films are so highly rewarded, about what they are built-objectively designed-to do. To go someplace? Or simply to parade prettily around the runway...
...thudded in round the clock; one night last week 40 Communist sappers slipped past the perimeter wire and destroyed or damaged five choppers. At week's end G.I.s were dismantling everything that they had put together at the start of the operation, right down to the aluminum planked runway...
...troops, plus at least 600 choppers. The juggernaut advanced westward on, above and around Route 9, an all-weather dirt road running 40 miles across South Viet Nam into Laos. At Khe Sanh, road graders rolled across the red clay plateau as troops patched one shell-torn runway and built a second to handle up to 40 big C-130 transports a day. Long-disused combat bases with names like Vandergrift, Bastogne and Veghel, snaking south toward the A Shau Valley, were also reopened. Significantly, many of the U.S. troops involved in the operation were told that they could expect...