Word: airstrips
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...sudden spate of attacks, British warplanes swept in over Port Stanley, the Falklands' tiny capital, and struck at the 4,000-ft. airstrip held since Argentina invaded the islands on April 2. First came a long-range, delta-winged Vulcan bomber from a base at Ascension Island, some 3,800 miles away. The Vulcan refueled in the air on the way to its target, dropped 21 half-ton bombs and, said a British defense official in London, left the airfield "severely cratered...
...role is taken by an animal thought to be extinct by the Zenkalis, an innocent and exploitable people. Their belief is shared by a young Briton, Peter Foxglove, sent to the island by his venal uncle, Sir Osbert, in order to pave the way for a military port and airstrip. But in classic anticolonial style, he crosses over to side with the natives. Peter's conversion is aided by a cast variegated in color and comedy: a king built on the order of a mahogany tree; his impudent adviser Hannibal, who addresses his majesty as Kingy; the irreverent Reverend...
Rolling down the runway, the little twin-engine jet looked like any rich man's weekend toy, but as it picked up speed over the California airstrip and began climbing, the craft underwent a bizarre and visually unsettling transformation. Its wing began slowly to swing around-its right half angling forward in the direction of flight, the left back...
...ominous rumble in the east. Slowly, one after another, six B-52 bombers came thundering out of the bright sun, flying only 600 ft. above the desert floor. Just a mile from the audience, each warplane sent 27 Mark-82 bombs, weighing 500 lbs. apiece, crashing onto a mock airstrip. Pillars of fire and black smoke billowed into the translucent sky. Minutes later, the aircraft wheeled to the west, starting their 7,000-mile nonstop flight back...
...constant affliction of screaming jet engines and shuddering vibration as huge airliners pass overhead. To a special few, a home beside an airport runway is the realization of a cherished dream. These people own their own planes and dwell in "air parks," residential communities organized around a private airstrip, accessible from nearly every home. Residents can park their planes in their front yards or in hangars-some of them two-plane models-adjacent to their houses. "When the kids ask for the keys to go out," says a resident of one airstrip community, "you don't know what keys...