Sentences with phrase «bolgatanga airstrip»

During an Oct. 23, exercise, several MV - 22 Osprey tilt - rotors and CH - 53E Super Stallion helicopters transported a Marine raiding party to secure a strategically - important airstrip on a nearby island.

Earlier this year, India signed a 20 - year pact with the Seychelles to build an airstrip and a jetty for its navy.

The airstrips are located next to Kim's multiple palaces and private train stations, The Telegraph reported.

President Trump's launch of 59 Tomahawk missiles to destroy one Syrian airstrip exacerbated an already complex situation in the Middle East, risking additional disruption of oil exports.

Dozens of exploration companies flooded to the area about five or six years ago, staking claims, setting up camps, even building airstrips without informing First Nations who consider the vast land theirs.

Most people love to travel, but they might think twice before landing a small aircraft on glaciers or dirt airstrips.

The Roosevelt Field shopping complex was built 60 years ago, in Garden City, N.Y., on the former Long Island airstrip where Charles Lindbergh took off on his historic transatlantic flight.

The military filled in wetlands to build an airstrip in the 1940s.

The manual accounting procedures on which he had previously relied allowed only monthly reporting of transactions at the resort's airstrip, restaurant, and 22 other sales centers.

After the meeting, while the Floreses were waiting to be picked up at an airstrip, Margarito told the DEA that Zambada had coaxed him further.

BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner who has joined Mr Allen on some of his expeditions in the past, told BBC Breakfast that Mr Allen had tracked «huge distances» to reach the remote airstrip.

In a statement, his agent Jo Sarsby said: «At 5 pm local time (PNG) Mr Keith Copley, the Coordinating Director for New Tribe Mission in Papua New Guinea confirmed in writing that Benedict Allen was safe, well and healthy and is presently located at a remote airstrip 20 miles northwest of Porgera, Enga Province.

He hoped to reach a remote tribe, thought to be one of the last on Earth to have no contact with the outside world, but was discovered by a Christian missionary worker at a remote airstrip in the heart of the country where roads have been cut off because of tribal fighting.

Congressman Leo Ryan and his aide had been shot down on an airstrip at Port Kaituma, Guyana.

I'll blame my sister for that, she loves airplanes and flying (she has yet to extend her license to mountain landing so she can't land on that airstrip) and that means that whenever we go skiing, she'll talk about mountain airstrips for ages!

Touch down at Harris Ranch Inn and Restaurant — we have you covered with a lighted airstrip, AV gas, and easy access to the entire property.

Two - thirds of them lived in the main trailhead village of Bario — it had one dirt road, two longhouses, some individual houses, three guesthouses, a few grocery and tool shops, a health clinic, and an airstrip — and the rest were scattered in the longhouses in the jungle.

Lance felt more like Dick's employee than his son, and his errant attempts to get his father's attention — he used Dick's truck to run over all the cones marking the local airstrip — only brought him a few minutes of scolding.

So imagine the crushing blow Lance felt when he was 10 years old and his mother, Kathie, took him and his younger brother, Jason, to the Wasilla airstrip to watch planes take off and to explain to them that a divorce meant that they might see even less of Dad, who was often gone anyway, off on construction projects as an ironworker.

I didn't read Drew Pearson all those years without knowing that every Congressman on the Airports» Repair Committee was forever traveling to the four corners of the tourist world to examine airstrips at the taxpayers» expense.

A small airstrip has been hacked from the jungle behind the fort.

A showdown of sorts involved the fellow at the Las Positas Golf Course near Livermore, Calif. who lofted a six - iron shot into the air on the first fairway just as a small plane was coming in to land at the club's airstrip.

And a new airstrip on which faster, more comfortable planes than DC - 3s can land is certain to step up patronage.

It shows the team working on the FW30 on a test day at Kemble airstrip.

Plans by the City of Chicago and the Chicago Park District to convert Meigs Field into a park suffered another setback Wednesday when the Illinois Appellate Court extended its ban on demolition of the airstrip.

A federal judge refused Friday to block the city's plans to close Meigs Field, bringing the tiny lakefront airstrip that has become a political battleground between Mayor Richard Daley and Gov. Jim Edgar closer to the wrecking ball.

«Also, Ekiti has no airstrip to say transport planes of the Nigerian Air Force conveyed them to our dear state.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a $ 30 million dollar airstrip that will test unmanned aircraft or drones will be built in central New York.

During the Clinton time in office, he was under a constant barrage of absurd accusations - murders, a cocaine running operation from a dinky airstrip in Arkansas, a «death list,» even Whitewater and related accusations that were exhaustively investigated - any credible or potentially credible accusations added to the pile of nonsense and crap suffered by association and «cry wolf» fatigue.

«There's not a lot of places you can find a 50 - mile airstrip to test drones.

Speaking at the Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management Convention in Syracuse, Cuomo said the airstrip is an investment in an industry that is going to be developed somewhere, so why not here.

Questions the Party that perpetually keeps watch on him — and all in Airstrip One — ruthlessly blurs and rewrites.

Mr. Musah announced that improvement works on the Wa Airstrip was progressing steadily and would be completed soon for commercial flights to start operating in Wa.

Besides the airstrips, the new Kotoka International Airport terminal 3 is set to be completed soon to give a major boost to international air travel.

The group alleged that relocation of the airstrip was a calculated attempt by the Upper East Regional Minister, Rockson Bukari and the Aviation Minister,...

But the Upper East Regional minister Rockson Bukari told Citi News, that the relocation of the airstrip to Sherigu was as a result of poor soil quality not suitable for citing the airstrip at Anateem.

They backed their suspicion with the claim that, the Aviation Minister led by the Regional Minister deliberately visited aviation projects at Paga and another proposed site for the Bolgatanga Airstrip at Sherigu but refused to visit the Bolgatanga proposed Airstrip at Anateem.

The group alleged that relocation of the airstrip was a calculated attempt by the Upper East Regional Minister, Rockson Bukari and the Aviation Minister, Cecilia Dapaah to relocate the proposed site currently at Anateem.

«But when the experts conducted soil test at Sherigu, they [experts] realized the soil there was the best that is why the Aviation ministry considered relocating the airstrip there otherwise who am I (Rockson Bukari) to relocate an airstrip from Anateem to Sherigu and in what capacity was I doing that?

With the U.S. government response in Liberia, responders discovered that the airstrip at the airport in Monrovia was not adequate actually for the planes that they needed to fly in supplies.

Three creeks converge on what looks like a golf course but is actually the irrigated greenery of the Taylor Ranch pasture and the adjacent airstrip.

Carmel O'Shannessy landed on Lajamanu's dirt airstrip in 1998 as a government employee sent to support local teachers of English and Warlpiri, a language spoken in several places in the Northern Territory.

SpaceShipOne, created by aerospace engineer and aircraft designer Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, was launched from a traditional airstrip attached to White Knight, a Rutan - designed experimental plane.

Wrestling with the flight maps — making sure I could see where the ground was — I looked for an airstrip.

«Can you check for the nearest airstrip?»

Signy's research programme in terrestrial biology will continue, but the marine work is being moved to Rothera Station, on Adelaide Island, where a # 4.5 million building programme is under way, including accommodation for 40 people and a rock airstrip.

Volunteer pilots also run flights for the WCS to pinpoint fires and airstrips, and scientists relay that data to law enforcement.

Once while on a field trip there studying birds, I offered to pay some villagers to carry supplies from an airstrip to my mountain camp.

Then came nine days of preparation in McMurdo Station, the main U.S. base in Antarctica, and nine more days stranded by weather at a remote airstrip deep inside the WAIS.

The 125,000 - pound plane lumbered forward, plowing the airstrip in both directions — a maneuver that lightened the plane's load by incinerating several thousand pounds of fuel.