Sentences with phrase «airstrips in»

More recently the government has enthusiastically courted what could be a sizable investment in the Alberta oilsands from Malaysia's Petronas, while studiously not commenting on outstanding allegations that the company has contravened UN sanctions against Sudan by refueling Sudanese military jets at airstrips in Darfur.

Charter flights are inexpensive and can be arranged to land in Jaco, Esterrilos, Quepos and at other airstrips in the Central Pacific Coast area.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

UNDER darkening skies on a grass airstrip in the UK's Wiltshire Downs, north of Stonehenge, I am watching half a dozen aeronautical engineers rushing to assemble an uncrewed aircraft before the weather takes a turn for the worse.

The Texas Mile event takes place at an airstrip in Beeville, Texas, every six months.

On the same airstrip in Sweden where other exciting drag races have been put together, the two powerful and fun M cars are measured against each other.

Hig, the book's hero, lives at an old airstrip in Colorado with his Blue Heeler, Jasper.

This Half Dy Air Safari begins with a breathtaking scenic flight over Sydney Harbour and Sydney's northern beaches before heading inland to land at a country airstrip in the heart of the Blue Mountains.

This is the only flightseeing company with an airstrip in Kantishna, inside Denali National Park.

You will need to book your accommodation well before you go and you will be picked up from the airstrip in a small boat

Travel time is about 45 minutes Landing is at a graded dirt airstrip in Bechers Bay.

The flight takes approximately 25 minutes, and flights are scheduled during daylight only since the airstrip in Tambor has no lights (yet!)

The results of an investigation into the incident where a Tropic Air aircraft crash - landed in the sea moments after it attempted lift - off at the Placencia airstrip in November are still to be released.

-- Please Note: As of September 2017, the airstrip in Caye Caulker is closed for repairs.

-- Please Note: As of September 2017, the airstrip in Caye Caulker is closed... Read More»

You can fly easily from the main airport in Brazil to the smaller airstrip in Syangboche, very near to where the hotel is located.

An adventure of its own, Tropic Air will fly you directly from the International Airport to the local Placencia airstrip in a small 14 - seater plane where you may even get to sit next to the pilot!

Allow us to book you on a short flight from the International Airport to the Maya Flats Airstrip in San Ignacio with Tropic Air.

From Belize City, you can board a Tropic Air flight and fly directly to the airstrip in San Ignacio; if you choose this option, we can send a driver to meet you at the San Ignacio airport and bring you to our doorstep.

Last year in November, Tropic Air started offering direct flights from Maya Flats Airstrip in San Ignacio to Placencia and return.

A flight from the Belize City International Airport to the airstrip in the center of San Pedro takes about 20 minutes and costs about $ 50.

Though Samara is a tiny town, 20 minutes north of this area, it has its own airstrip in the closest domestic airport in Nosara where you can land by small planes.

This is a very small airport and you'll feel like you're in a movie landing on a tiny airstrip in the jungle... very exciting.

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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.

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.

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 ProvincIn 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 Provincin 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 Provincin writing that Benedict Allen was safe, well and healthy and is presently located at a remote airstrip 20 miles northwest of Porgera, Enga Province.

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.

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.

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

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

There was a special airstrip that was put down there for planes to come in with the film.

Set in a heavily forested part of the Oregon coast, a boy is kidnapped by four desperate bank robbers who plan to use his expert navigation skills to locate a remote airstrip.

With bellies full of salsa and Coca - Cola, we headed back outside to the airstrip and made our way over to a groomed snow road course for another just - for - fun event — a simple time trial race from start to finish in front - wheel - drive Pontiac Vibes.

To gauge pace in a more clinical manner, we used an airstrip located on the opposite side of Maranello for instrumented testing.

Hitting 200 mph in a tuned GT - R is only a matter of finding the right airstrip,...

Watch for yourself as the two German brutes climb to over 160 mph on an airstrip somewhere in England.

The Range Rover Sport, the fastest production Land Rover to date, representing the latest advances in all - terrain performance has been pitted against Britain's most famous fighter aircraft in a high - speed off - road race along the grass airstrip at the Goodwood Aerodrome in Sussex.

Once a year, a barge drops off supplies, and there's a small airstrip also used for bringing in food.