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.
Afghan engineers and their mentors pieced together a 42-metre, metal "overbridge" earlier this week at Kandahar Airfield and then moved parts of the Meccano-like structure a few kilometres to the blast site. Dose.ca Music briefs
Fairfield has just one budget analyst in its finance department.
Mark Fairfield, an outvoter, who, though a Lansmere freeman, had settled in Hazeldean, where he had obtained the situation of head carpenter on the squire's estate. My Novel — Volume 01
Once again, the Americans had essentially reassumed control of the airfield by operating the air traffic control system that extended southward from Thule to Newfoundland.
After undertaking preliminary study, participants tour airfields, command posts, ammunition dumps, and battlefields where airpower played a role.
Helicopters are turbine powered and have to go to a major airfield or an RAF station to refuel, whereas a piston-engined aircraft can refuel at practically any flying or gliding club.
When bad weather stopped the jump, the parachute was kept in a store at the airfield that was locked overnight but was left open in the day.
It wasn't until the 83rd minute that Fairfield scored their third goal through a Horsefield stunning solo run and finish.
But with the holiday coming Wednesday, TV football now seems unusually full of salutes the U.S. military — led by Fox's two-hour NFL pregame being staged from the Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan Sunday. Fox, ESPN take shows to military
At the far end of the airfield was a cluster of prefabricated buildings. The Athena Project
And that boy be cockered up much by Mister Dale; and the Papishers went and sat with him and his mother a whole hour t'other day; and that boy is as deep as a well; and I seed him lurking about the place, and hiding hisself under the tree the day the stocks was put up -- and that ere boy is Lenny Fairfield. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
It's a trend that has given a new lease of life to neglected race tracks and disused airfields up and down the country and boosted rural employment. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Morse died at Long Marston airfield near Stratford upon Avon on Monday following a collision with a gyroplane. Man charged with murder by gyrocopter' in hunt case
A few low-flying cruise missiles could wipe out an airfield before the mighty jets get off the ground.
When the plane arrived, some of the detectives were waiting inside the main building while others were waiting on the airfield.
The team performed their aerial display, then broke off to deploy their parachutes and land back at the airfield.
She arrived at Rufforth airfield on a flight from Heathrow and wore a turquoise suit with matching hat and black accessories for the occasion.
The third stage was a criterium, a 60-minute race on a one-mile course weaving through the streets of Fairfield.
One great difficulty was that of recruiting radio operators owing to the fact that wireless telegraphy is very little used in the commercial air services over here, which operate by means of the radio ranges, and radio telephony when within range of the control towers of the airfields. Some Aspects of the Royal Air Force Transport Command
Scattered around the airfield are the remains of many Allied and Japanese aircraft, whose aircrews made the ultimate sacrifice for their countries.
Twelve Fireflies and nine Seafires from HMS Triumph armed with rockets attacked Haeju Airfield, damaging hangars and buildings, but no aircraft were sighted.
Forays were also made to Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Greece to bomb airfields and ports used by the Germans.
-- Fairfield coach Ed Cooley, after his team rallied from a 27-point, second-half deficit to beat George Mason in the opening round of the CollegeInsider. com Tournament. Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
He performed a tactical approach to the airfield, banking the plane 45 degrees in a tight downward spiral to the left.
The pilot set the aircraft up for a diversion to the nearest suitable airfield.
As a group the human activities that in one way or another have played a part in the loss of the forest would include the construction of infrastructure for expanding towns, airfields, aquiculture pools, cutting and utilization of trees in unsustainable ways, exploitation of fishing resources associated with the mangrove (piangua), cutting of trees to change soil use and establishment of coconut crops. Esmeraldes-Pacific Colombia mangroves
In recent weeks a series of grandstands and marquee tents have been assembled on the airfield, and signs have been going up awaiting the thousands of visitors who will descend on the event.
There was a taxi waiting where the aircraft came to a halt so that they could avoid the muddy dirt of the airfield.
It was the airfield outside Aalborg in northern Denmark, Sola outside Stavanger and Fornebu outside Oslo .
When the plane arrived, some of the detectives were waiting inside the main building while others were waiting on the airfield.
From the outside it still looks a bit like the disused airfield it once was. Times, Sunday Times
Where we were sitting in Jalalabad was, by chance, beside the Jalalabad airfield, which is one of the major takeoff zones for the drones. Christopher Lydon: William Dalrymple: the Af-Pak Fiasco "on its last legs" (AUDIO)
Among the more unusual jobs Amelia took on at the airfield was decorating the public rooms.
The aircraft has been languishing in a hangar on a wartime airfield at Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire where enthusiasts have so far raised £400,000 to keep it well-maintained.
The latest navigational aids make the location of the airfield quite easy.
Logan has Kidport play areas in Terminals A and C, rocking chairs, a public art program, pet relief areas outside each terminal and great (enclosed) views of the airfield from the top floors of the central garage in Terminals B or C. Nearby layover option Boston Logan International Airport Guide
Initial concerns were ultimately allayed, for the battle group reached Helmstedt without incident and bivouacked for the night at an airfield.
When his undercarriage jammed the pilot alerted airfield bosses, burned off spare fuel, then skilfully landed the aircraft on its belly despite strong winds. The Sun
Wherever there was an active coastal airfield you might find wrecks, either from accidents or shootings-down, but most planes that crashed into the sea disintegrated on impact.
This is not war where the dispositions of forces, aircraft on airfields and headquarters of the aggressor are not subjected to enemy pressure.
The 1,050 mm diameter outfall on the west side of the airfield required a temporary cofferdam during its construction.
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Even patients convalescing at Fairfield Sanatorium were not forgotten: street criers from the festival toured the wards distributing flowers and good cheer.
Just like they had done during the airfield rescue, the twins were attacking the saucers.
A young gunnery officer in command of a hill post overlooking the city keeps watch of the air space above, whilst a young flying instructor at the airfield below trains teenage kamikaze pilots for their single trip to eternity.
The airfield's largest visitors include light twin-engined aircraft although a number of military helicopters have also landed there.
This guy probably popped up from one of the little grass airfields in the area.
They could have sent up fighter aircraft from nearby airfields, denying the Nazis a clear sky from which to bomb and strafe the city.
The warplane clipped the tops of trees lining the airfield before scraping the ground and slicing the nose off a large transport aircraft.
Some of the airfields are remarkably well preserved and the viewer can easily equate the archive footage with the scenes shot recently.
From the fall of France in May 1940 the role of the RAF was essentially defensive, save for raids on enemy airfields and occasional bombing attacks to boost morale.
In one he glided to an airfield at night, and in the other he ran off the end of a runway into a field. Times, Sunday Times
An airshow is underway at a nearby airfield, and antique biplanes loop overhead as we poke through out of style clothes, old suitcases and Tupperware. Butternut Squash Risotto with Sage and Gorgonzolo
What if no developed airfields exist and only military aircraft can reach the theater?
He heard the helicopter winding up when he was only two hundred metres from the airfield.
And the singer Michael Jackson has even expressed interest in building a $ 500m theme park on an abandoned airfield near Warsaw.
But we look in vain for such passionate exponents of the figure as Fairfield Porter, Bob Thompson, Euan Uglow or Graham Nickson, all of whom, with differing degrees of painterliness, created fierce dramas out of concentrated scrutiny of the body. The Analysis Is Skin Deep
Whether you come from north or south, by road or by rail, or by air to the recently improved airfield, you enjoy a feast of coastal scenery which helps you to relax, ready for holiday making.
When the bus makes a scheduled stop in Fairfield where the annual rodeo is in progress, Mollie runs into broncobuster Duke Hudkins.
U.S. seaports, airfields, depots, arsenals, defense contractor assembly plants, and distribution centers are difficult to secure and defend.
Military officials said there were no indications that the crash at Kandahar airfield was caused by hostile fire. Times, Sunday Times
The warplane clipped the tops of trees lining the airfield before scraping the ground and slicing the nose off a large transport aircraft.
The Kemble Air Day brought the best examples of vintage jets and warbirds together at one airfield along with modern RAF aircraft.
Although they planned to land at Lydda, weather conditions compelled them to land at the military airfield in Ramallah. Shulamit Goldstein.
They said she had become a public nuisance behind the station ‘as she quite openly solicits males on Fairfield Street and as a result of such liaisons, regularly frequents the ladies' toilets’ on Piccadilly station itself.
My instructor relayed to the senior instructor that we would be returning to the airfield, because we had overstressed the plane.
Three were killed in competitions or practices, four race fans died on the roads and one biker died in an accident at a disused airfield. The Sun
I live within earshot of the airfield and get an enormous thrill from hearing and watching the activities on the airfield.
It does not matter whether we fly jets, develop purchasing agreements with local populaces, guard airfield and housing perimeters, make policies, or design new weapon systems, our thoughts do count in this uncertain future.
Because of their lightness they don't need an airfield to take off or land and in their early days they had an unenviable safety record. Times, Sunday Times
She will be doing a tandem jump from 13,000 feet with an instructor at Netheravon airfield.
Trying to exit the airfield after the show ended resulted in large queues of vehicles all trying to get out of one gate.
The enemy was also mounting conventional fighter, bomber and torpedo attacks against troops, airfields and ships by day and night. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
The cars smoked round the circuit with a howl that wafted from the far side of the former wartime airfield like a squadron of Spitfires taking off. Times, Sunday Times
Small grass fields had given way to gigantic airfields with runways up to three miles long. Plane Speaking - a personal view of aviation history
It has been collected in a road cut near Grant Mills, Cumberland, Rhode Island; in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; and in greisen with purple fluorite at Irish Creek, Rockbridge County, Virginia.
He would take to the skies from a small airfield in Montgomery County, honing his skills and entertaining his friends. Hodges, David L.
And the singer Michael Jackson has even expressed interest in building a $ 500m theme park on an abandoned airfield near Warsaw.
Well, this year I was proud to look around the old airfield and think it was our home race. The Sun
Hayes described the installation's many ranges, training sites and very busy airfield - the heliport is the second largest in the nation, behind Fort Rucker's flight school - and made a pitch to entice the divisions to use the Gap training center. Blackanthem Military News
Three miles south the Imperial War Museum has an exciting collection of military and civil aircraft at Duxford airfield.
Trading speed for altitude, Art got the racer up to about 50 feet and managed to make a safe landing at the airfield.
Soon afterwards, the balloon began to descend and it landed near an airfield.
Three people were hurt yesterday when a civilian plane crashed while taking off from an RAF airfield.
It will see a scientific centre of excellence created at the museum, which stands on the former airfield on the hills above Wroughton.
I well recall walking the 11 miles from the airfield to Epernay.
In Fairfield and Visalia, managers constantly shift their resources to meet new needs and phase out obsolete activities.
Twenty Spitfires will take off from the historic airfield, flying in mass formation. Times, Sunday Times
During my first two weeks as an aircraftman with the Airfield Defence Guards in Vietnam, there was a call for volunteers to train as helicopter gunners.
There were thousands of gulls present along with geese, ducks, egrets, and crows all loafing or actively feeding on the airfield.
The airfield is limited to 7,000 civil movements per year and is frequently used for flights by Britain's royal family.
Gliders and microlights have replaced wartime bombers at Rufforth Airfield, and they fly over a York very different to that which once echoed to the drone of the Halifax engines.
Places that failed to make the 'tentative' list include Blackpool, the former RAF airfield at Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire, the Rows shops and half-timbered houses in Chester, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Western Railway. UK nominates 11 sites for Unesco world heritage status
After two years' convalescence, madcap funnyman Freddie Starr has risen from his sickbed to appear at the Woodville Halls, in Gravesend, and again the next night at the Fairfield Halls, in Croydon
This happened in Kandahar airfield, which is in the southern part of Afghanistan. CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2009
The group blocked the railroad crossing in Fairfield to protest the transport of fracked oil.
At first the airfield was a grass landing area and work had not even started on hard runways when the base was opened.
The apparent lack of multiple entry and exit gates on the crowd side of the airfield was bound to cause problems.
Rob taxied the Concorde to an unlit area at the end of the airfield and throttled back the engines to wait.
Such crude alignments concealed the fact that realists such as Fairfield Porter or Freud were no more politically committed than their abstract colleagues.
But Bart Rea, an Audubon member who had been monitoring the eagle killings, and his friend, another Audubon member, were out at the airfield one day and both men happened to notice someone working on a nearby helicopter. Bird Cloud
One psychic described an airfield with a gantry and crane at a set of coordinates that placed it at the Soviet nuclear test site at Semipalatinsk.
However, the team called off the performance at the last minute when it became clear that a microlight, and possibly other aircraft, had entered the eight-mile exclusion zone around the airfield.
Shortly before the end of the war we were moved from Mahrenberg farm to Kapfenberg in Austria where we were placed on a work detail filling in bomb craters at an airfield. Robert Cunliffe
That burst finally convinced somebody in airfield defence.
Fairfield, which bought the land in 1994, remains strategically tight-lipped on its plans for the rest of the ranch.
It contained a lot more of local residents' real feelings about the airfield than glowing articles about the bravery of daredevil stunt pilots or drivers of 140 mph Formula One cars.
When his undercarriage jammed the pilot alerted airfield bosses, burned off spare fuel, then skilfully landed the aircraft on its belly despite strong winds. The Sun
Sighs of gratitude have been heard all over Comoro Airfield for Maintenance's ability to fix unserviceable vehicles, repair worn out air-conditioners and extend the life of the Mess tent fridge.
She put down safely in the corner of the airfield.
This success led to an order directing all military airfields to have an air ambulance.
They had infiltrated a military airfield, and this was regarded as prejudicial to the state's interests.
Small grass fields had given way to gigantic airfields with runways up to three miles long. Plane Speaking - a personal view of aviation history
Anchored off Port au Prince, that gives the aid effort a helicopter airfield where refueling and maintenance operations can take place without interfering with ground operations at the main airfield. Think Progress » Chavez Attacks U.S. Efforts In Haiti: ‘They Are Occupying Haiti Undercover’
There was no airfield defence, but the adjutant was happy enough, and apparently quite sane.
He was certified dead at Fairfield General Hospital.
The plane plunged into woods at the end of an airfield after it was caught by a gust of wind during landing. The Sun
The apparent lack of multiple entry and exit gates on the crowd side of the airfield was bound to cause problems.
But then, instead of making a hasty retreat, they lurked around the airfield buildings to wait for the explosions.
This position would give them a commanding view of the main doors to the hangar as well as the rest of the airfield.
Following the initial attacks by 8 CIA-owned B-26s on Cuban airfields, he declared the revolution "Marxist-Leninist".
In May 1943 four strikes of Soviet aviation at the enemy airfields at the Kursk salient destroyed 500 aircraft.
An airfield that is an asset to the local community.
The taxiing aircraft smashed into some brickwork after lurching to avoid Dad as he inattentively wheeled a bicycle across the airfield. My dad, the revolutionary disciple of indie rock
Read in studio A passenger in a microlight aircraft was injured when the machine crashed-landed at an airfield.
In turn, Kandahar Airfield, the base of operations for southern Afghanistan, is likely to continue transforming from an expeditionary bulwark to a steady-state installation.
Three miles south the Imperial War Museum has an exciting collection of military and civil aircraft at Duxford airfield.
When the plane arrived, some of the detectives were waiting inside the main building while others were waiting on the airfield.
At 61, his hair is a little gray, but he still looks like he could jump out of planes and take down airfields.
Like the Air Force, the Navy, through its Reserve forces, operates the C - 130 cargo plane, which can deliver cargo to fixed airfields, including unimproved runways.
Fairfield's quirky blend of farmers, computer programmers, accountants and organic-fabric clothing designers began in the early 1970s, when the maharishi, the Beatles' spiritual adviser and leader of the international transcendental meditation movement, took over the defunct Parsons College on the outskirts of town and turned it into the Maharishi University of Management. Meditators Back Paul for Peace
Once out west, the bus makes a scheduled stop in Fairfield where the annual rodeo is in progress.
I planned to go to the 2000 fly-in at Antique Airfield the first of September where I got to meet my old friend again.
Now they have dedicated their hangar to high speed and in particular the record breakers that flew from this historic airfield.
And they had an American aircraft land on one of their airfields without permission.
The Army team identified the device as a dummy bomb, used for target practice when the site was an airfield during the Second World War.
It is the latest chapter in the history of an airfield which once played a key part in the war as a Bomber Command airbase.
The airfield is one of the main attractions for the current residents - often bankers and businessmen who fly in from abroad for the weekend.
The fragments would shred an aeroplane's fuselage and render it inoperable, making the anti-personnel bombs very effective on airfield raids.
In Gippsland the aircraft fly out of airfields of Latrobe Valley, West Sale and Bairnsdale to assist during fires.
Several enemy aircraft were strafed and destroyed and airfield buildings were attacked.
The bombing rendered the airfield inoperable.
He now beheld Lenny rising with some difficulty, still panting hard, and with hysterical sounds akin to what is vulgarly called blubbering, his fine new waistcoat sprinkled with his own blood, which flowed from his nose, -- nose that seemed to Lenny Fairfield's feelings to be a nose no more, but a swollen, gigantic, mountainous Slawkenbergian excrescence; in fact, he felt all nose! My Novel — Complete
Soon afterwards, the balloon began to descend and it landed near an airfield.
The windsock at the airfield has had a definite droop all week, and the sea is as flat as a pond, except for intermittent splashes from the seals, as they play amongst the seaweed out in the bay.
Then it was on to Janina on the Albanian border guarding another airfield where I spent Robert Cunliffe
During 9 March numerous single aircraft appeared overhead to strafe Takali airfield.
From this it seemed evident that it was her planes we had destroyed on the Trincomalee airfield a few hours earlier.
The aircraft is shown leaving the sand bag revetments at Kimpo Airfield in South Korea.
Then the white biplane dipped as the pupil began looking for his airfield. Bomber
As they headed to the airfield all 7 gallons of oil from the main rotor gearbox, and all 7 quarts from each engine was pouring out. Michael J. Durant
‘It was a lovely day, with flowers blooming, but it just happened to be very close to an airfield,’ says Anderson.
Often they can not be practised on the home site because they are not acceptable on a busy airfield.
The five-mile precast guideway, 50 ft high, required 30,000 night gate closures, airfield work and 300,000 sq ft of terminal renovation.
On a bitterly wet and windy day at an old airfield in Leicestershire I had reason to question both claims. Times, Sunday Times
Recently, John Fagin, an internationally recognized molecular biologist and former genetic engineer from Fairfield, Iowa, made a stand.
Suddenly the sail is flapping and useless, the acceleration is gone, and I'm coasting gently towards the edge of the airfield, still steering with my feet.
Military officials said there were no indications that the crash at Kandahar airfield was caused by hostile fire. Times, Sunday Times
They coordinated and conducted an airfield burn of 160 acres, which reduced the safe habitat for small vermin.
They can land on airfields of any category, including ground and water surfaces.
Medical personnel still accompany the infantrymen, artillerymen, and engineers, known as alpha echelon, who execute a parachute assault to conduct and support airfield seizure.
The most unlikely volunteers recently joined with the PMG's small engineering detachment to assist in emergency airfield repairs.
It was an emotional event as the veterans, most of whom either served at the airfield as pilots or ground staff, met for the first time in years.
It was also used by the RAF for airfield defence, making it a fitting acquisition for the Yorkshire Air Museum.
A car boot sale at Boxted Airfield has also been called off.
The defendants avowed intention was to disrupt the airfield.
It was travelling at more than 140 mph as it arrowed along the 1.9 miles of tarmac at Elvington Airfield, near York.
Then he looked out in the distance, far beyond the airfield and the prairie that rushed to meet it.
Hardwick airfield is on private property, so you need to arrange your visit in advance.
Oprah Winfrey jetted in last October to produce a show on Fairfield's meditators. Meditators Back Paul for Peace
In Fairfield and Visalia, managers constantly shift their resources to meet new needs and phase out obsolete activities.
He kept his flying pride and joy on White Waltham airfield and to its upkeep devoted the bulk of his income, gleefully informing anyone who would listen that it left aerobic exercises out of sight as a keep-fit heart-stresser. Second Wind
During the war, the airfield was used by Dakota aircraft and gliders preparing for the D-Day and Arnhem landings.
The team performed their aerial display, then broke off to deploy their parachutes and land back at the airfield, in front of a crowd of around 70 people.
The enemy was also mounting conventional fighter, bomber and torpedo attacks against troops, airfields and ships by day and night. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Its first opened temporarily on a former airfield four years ago. Times, Sunday Times
Some people like bare airfields and the brisk, businesslike talk that surrounds them: but Joe Mahoney was a sub-tropical man. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
The aircraft was therefore self-sufficient and did not need to rely on truck-mounted stairs - a timesaving circumstance of particular importance when small or relatively undeveloped airfields were being served.
As soon as the aircraft landed, crash crews strategically deployed along the main runway, raced behind the jet until it came to a stop at the end of the airfield.
Another option would be to roll the helicopter into a high angle of bank to stay over the airfield and to avoid the trees.
A healthy baby boy was delivered in the back of the helicopter on the tarmac at the Comoro Airfield.
Yet few generator sets were available to provide power, and prime power needed to operate the reefers at Kandahar Airfield was limited.
The legendary soul diva of divas makes a welcome return date to Fairfield Concert Hall.
Fairfield has just one budget analyst in its finance department.
Rufforth Airfield has been hosting the Yorkshire Air Spectacular, with flying model craft ranging in size from miniatures to monsters with a 25 ft wingspan.
The St Gabriel's High School pupil has had nine pins and a nine-inch long metal plate inserted into his leg and spent a week in Fairfield Hospital.
A former fugitive accused of bankrolling a massive skunk cannabis factory at an airfield near Selby has pleaded guilty to being concerned in the production of cannabis.
The aircraft was therefore self-sufficient and did not need to rely on truck-mounted stairs - a timesaving circumstance of particular importance when small or relatively undeveloped airfields were being served.
Is there anything uglier in the whole landscape than an arterial by-pass road, except an airfield?
After a routine descent the co-pilot reported the airfield in sight and the tower controller cleared the aircraft to final approach.

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