Sentences with phrase «air strip»

It includes a 5, 000 - square - foot main house, a half - dozen cottages, a private air strip and a rarely used 18 - hole golf course.

You won't expect it, because you prepared for the long haul,» she writes, «but then all of the sudden, midst the puffy clouds and blue skies, your little twin engine Entreprenairplane will sputter, the needle on the gas gauge unexpectedly plummeting to zero, and you will have only one choice... land your plane on the wild, abandoned air strip called Bank Balance: Fourteen Dollars.»

Commonly, the leases included large areas of land around communities, including air strips, quarries, rubbish dumps, cattle yards, nearby homelands and areas of vacant land.

Shopping center REITs — those that operate open - air strip centers, where retailers are arranged in a row and often around a traditional grocery anchor like Kroger — were tumbling more than their peers in the real estate sector on Friday's announcement.

All flights land at the propriety royal air strip which is ten minutes drive from the lodge.

The town contains a small air strip with flights to Makira and Honiara.

While the property is prized for its beauty, privacy and sense of seclusion, it is actually only 1.5 miles from Placencia Village and within walking distance of Placencia's quaint little air strip.

We did a fuel economy test on the mean city streets, but we also spiced things up with a drag race at an abandoned air strip.

China claims most of the South China Sea, an important trade route which is believed to contain large quantities of oil and natural gas, and has been building artificial islands on reefs, some with ports and air strips.

After flying for about 45 minutes over the barrier reef and cayes along the coast of Belize, we landed at an air strip in the heart of the vast citrus groves which grow grapefruits, oranges, mangos, papayas, and passion fruits.

When I got closer to the air strip I wondered what the presence of such a large number of people was about.

The reasons for this became clearer as we went a few metres from the air strip.

A two - hour flight from Houston, Texas, or Miami, Fla., will take you to Belize City, where you can catch a commuter flight to Ambergris Caye's air strip.

Approximately 111acres of milpa cultivation, in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary abandoned immediately before its declaration, and area's previously cleared for logging operations (including an air strip) have left patches of regenerating secondary forest Some «elfin» forest grows above 655 yards on Victoria Peak itself (outside the reserve).

The air strip, 3,000 feet long, comes into view and within seconds you're on the ground.

As you taxi to the small airline buildings at the north end of the air strip, you'll see, in the bright glare of the sun, the southern end of San Pedro Town.

The only way to get there and back in one day from San Pedro is to fly to the air strip at Flores.

The home is close to fine dining and other upscale resorts in an exclusive section of Placencia, just 8 minutes from Placencia Village and air strip.

When you fly into Ambergris Caye, you'll be arriving at the San Pedro Airport (SPR), which is the only airport in Belize outside of Belize City that is a full airport rather than just an air strip.

In most cases, hotels will provide transportation to guests from the air strip in San Pedro or the boat docks.

We are a moment's walk from both water taxies and a 10 min drive by golf cart taxi from the air strip.

Nevertheless, this hotel is in the center of the town and a short walk from everything, including both the air strip and the water taxi pier.

Those with a «real - world» need to know if the infrastructure will hold (will there be enough of those air strips?)

In 1981, one of those tipping points came when we heard about a situation in China Lake, California, which is the middle of the Mojave Desert, in which the U.S. Navy had a problem with donkeys, burros, coming onto the air strip.

To improve regional connectivity, the construction ofsmall airports and air strips will be undertaken.