"Landing strip" Quotes from Famous Books
... I got time to tell you how I chased a Nazi birdman right down on a British landing strip," O'Malley called ... — A Yankee Flier Over Berlin • Al Avery
... transport plane eased down through the rainy drizzle enshrouding New York International Airport at about five o'clock in the evening. Tom Shandor glanced sourly through the port at the wet landing strip, saw the dim landing lights reflected in the steaming puddles. On an adjacent field he could see the rows and rows of jet fighters, wings up in the foggy rain, poised like ridiculous birds in the darkness. ... — Bear Trap • Alan Edward Nourse
... in the Crack. He gave the message he'd been told to pass on. Sattell to come up, with what diamonds had been dug since the regular cannister was sent up for the Lunar City ship that would be due presently. Otherwise the ship on the landing strip would destroy shack and Pop ... — Scrimshaw • William Fitzgerald Jenkins |