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US
/ˈɛɹˌfiɫd/
]
[ UK /ˈeəfiːld/ ]
[ UK /ˈeəfiːld/ ]
NOUN
- a place where planes take off and land
How To Use airfield In A Sentence
- According to CAF, the Museum precinct will essentially encompass the buildings, hangars and aprons on the airfield side of Williams Road.
- Essential tools include a bird identification field guide, a map of the airfield with a superimposed grid system for locating birds, and a pair of binoculars.
- On the ground she was fêted with lavish hospitality by friends waiting at every far-flung airfield to whisk her off to a celebratory feast.
- Epsom and Ewell's historians assume that he would have found it hard to maintain course and so could not land at any of the airfields near the south coast.
- Over 300 houses have also been built there and the airfield is not disused.
- A cleaner on his way home from work feared he would die as water lapped his chin when he became trapped in his car in Fairfield.
- Living close to the East Fortune Airfield, you hardly ever get through a day without seeing some kind of flying device in the sky, be it a microlight, heli-copter or, best of all, a jet.
- As well as handling helicopter movements, they temporarily provided control services for the military tarmac to try to get as many aircraft into the small airfield as possible.
- Huge craters scarred the streets and Clifton airfield.
- Pilot error has been cited as the likely cause of a crash which occurred as a plane took off from an airfield near Keighley.