Word: airstrips
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...airport, then from a landing field to their customer's office. To eliminate this time-consuming delay, some air-minded firms have launched a trend that may eventually change the nature of business travel: they are setting up shop in fly-in industrial parks that have an airstrip right at the front door...
...room hotel and restaurant, play a round of golf with him, and fly him back to his office the same day. Outside Washington, a developer is turning the Montgomery County (Md.) airport into an airpark, already has 170 aircraft based there. A golf-cart manufacturer is building beside the airstrip, and IBM, Fairchild Hiller, Sprague Electronics, Bechtel Corp., and the National Bureau of Standards are building nearby...
...Meridian, Miss., to confer with town officials who want to build one there. There is, of course, still the problem of commuting between home and work-but the Sierra Sky Park in Fresno, Calif., has solved even that. Owners of its 105 residential lots can land on the community airstrip, taxi up to their homes, then park in their own planeport...
...area. Rose, the father of two small daughters who live with their mother in Hong Kong, last month accompanied a South Viet Nam Cabinet Minister on a trip up the country's coastline from Saigon. The twin-engined C-47 had just taken off from the airstrip at Quang Ngai, 300 miles north of Saigon, when it crashed after engine failure. Forty-one persons aboard died, including the Cabinet Minister and Jerry Rose...
...ground on a cushion of compressed air, can skim both land and sea (provided there are no major hills or waves) at a brisk 85 m.p.h. This one had just floated over San Francisco Bay, scooted up a ramp without breaking stride, and roared on across the Oakland airstrip to its destination. The scheduled shuttle between the Oakland and San Francisco airports should prove the perfect opportunity for the Hovercraft to show its stuff. Cheaper to run than helicopters and far more versatile than hydrofoils, the amphibious craft can cozy right up to an airplane, load up and transport...