Word: airstrips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are no roads linking Barrow to the outside world; ships can get in and out only two months a year. The only year-round connection to the outside is by air, and every day a Wien Consolidated Airlines Boeing 737 jet puts down on an airstrip just outside the settlement. The community's leaders say that the remoteness of Barrow is probably the main reason for one of the area's most perplexing problems-excessive drinking. Of the 700-odd arrests made by Barrow police over the past year, almost all were related to drinking. An important...
Reporter-Researcher Vanderschmidt's fascination with the drama of flight does not end in the office. Driving each weekend from their West Side Manhattan apartment to a small airstrip in the Catskills, she and her husband Tom put their knowledge of aerodynamics to the acid test by flying gliders...
...first trip to Sharm el Sheikh was in 1956 in a military DC-3. We came in for a hard landing on a makeshift airstrip. There were no roads and no inhabitants. The only man-made attractions were two British-built naval guns that had been spiked by retreating Egyptians. This time, my Arkia Viscount made the flight from Tel Aviv in 70 minutes and glided to a powder-puff landing on a hard-topped runway long enough to accommodate a Boeing...
...Thung tribesmen were moved into a region west of the town of Sepone, a key transshipments point on the Ho Chi Minh trail. South Vietnamese engineers are reportedly attempting to rebuild an airstrip in Sepone for use as a base of operations for deeper penetrations along the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...twin-engined Caribou swoops down from a brilliant blue sky and lands squealing on a pocket airstrip scooped out of volcanic rock or sunbaked sand. Hardly has it braked to a stop when a tall, bearded figure hops out, one hand holding his bright ima-ma, or turban, against the airstream, the other fingering the silver kunjar, or dagger, at his waist. Brown-eyed, gentle Qabus bin Said, 30, absolute monarch of Oman, has arrived on another tour of his sultanate (see color pages). Through such visits the Sultan hopes to strengthen the loyalty of local sheiks and villagers...