Sentences with phrase «airstrip known»

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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.

You know, one of the things, for example, that — with the US government response in Liberia that they discovered right from the beginning was that the airstrip at the airport in Monrovia was not adequate actually for the planes that they needed to fly in supplies.

The airstrip, known as Lima Site 6, was used to support covert paramilitary operations in Southeast Asia.

The Hotel Saks in Placencia was previously known as Kitty's Place and is located 1.5 miles north of the village of Placencia, within a short drive from the airstrip.

Did you know that Alaskan bush pilots (who don't always land on runways), will pay about 2 - 3 times more for their term insurance than a private pilot who takes off and lands from established airstrips, all else being equal?