Landing field

Usage examples of aerodrome.

The duty of affording fighter protection to the naval forces holding Malta should have priority over the use of the aerodromes by bombers engaged in attacking Tripoli.

Flight Subaltern Smith to his first duty station at Thimblerig Aerodrome in Augusta, Georgia.

This will entail preparing adequate runways, homing devices, and possibly fog-clearing gear on the aerodromes, and de-icing and blind-landing equipment, etc.

Aerodrome they reached Stanley Park, an unruined peninsula several miles around, which had, thank God, been forked over to Protocol and kept much as it had always been, with the same Douglas firs and mossy red cedars that had been growing there forever.

Katya stood beside her biplane, watching Leonid walk to his Yak-9 in his flight suit, watched him take off to fly his shift of patrol duty over the aerodrome.

Everybody at Hartley aerodrome was deeply interested in Love, except perhaps the Adjutant and Flight Officer Stevens, and one or two others more than twenty-five years old.

She very soon discovered P for Percy at an aerodrome in Essex, and later in the night she found that M for Mother had been wrecked in a field near Dover, the crew having baled out of the disabled aircraft as soon as they were over land.

It would probably be quite all right provided that the ground was hard, but on a strange aerodrome in April would the ground be hard ?

Dobbie sat staring out of the window at the wide reaches of the aerodrome, thoughtful.

Her duty that night was in the control office on the aerodrome, supervising the signallers and keeping track of the machines as the reports came in, marking them up upon the blackboard for the duty control officer to see, searching the country by telephone for the missing.

Soon there were several aircraft making circuits of the aerodrome, winking their identification letters, waiting their signal to land.

Will you give me a green when the aerodrome is clear, give me a green when the aerodrome is clear.

Outside the Chance lights blazed out from the lee boundaries of the aerodrome, so that everything was as bright as day.

Presently, feeling some slight stir of Service decency and aerodrome behaviour, they disentangled and drove on round the runway.

He stood beside the museum Avro on the aerodrome of San Remo at dusk on the Sunday evening, and watched the kidnapping cortege coming towards him across the field with genuine admiration.