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Across the street from the resort was the Chicagoland Airport, once a satellite landing field during World War II for Glenview Naval Air Station.
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Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
Van Zandt purchased 278 acres of cotton fields east of 24th Street and south of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks and transformed them into a landing field.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2024
And no ones sees that landing field more clearly than Michael O’Leary, Boeing’s disappointed customer, but still true believer.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
The three were assigned to the 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, based at Fort Moore, Ga., a unit that builds roads, landing fields and other facilities for American troops overseas.
—Peter Baker, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
The site is actually the birthplace of America’s space program, and is home not just to a space capsule landing field, but the latest in weapons tech, from lasers to electromagnetic railguns.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023
The ring was an airship landing field.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
During an emergency action plan rehearsal at an Alabama high school, medical providers realized that a foot bridge to the life-flight helicopter’s emergency landing field wasn’t wide enough to support a gurney.
—Julie Washington, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2023
But just as a scene begins to flatten, an aircraft crashes into a tree or flips cleanly onto its back on a landing field, instantly reviving the narrative.
—Andrea Pitzer, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
Van Zandt purchased 278 acres of cotton fields east of 24th Street and south of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks and transformed them into a landing field.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2024
And no ones sees that landing field more clearly than Michael O’Leary, Boeing’s disappointed customer, but still true believer.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
The three were assigned to the 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, based at Fort Moore, Ga., a unit that builds roads, landing fields and other facilities for American troops overseas.
—Peter Baker, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
The site is actually the birthplace of America’s space program, and is home not just to a space capsule landing field, but the latest in weapons tech, from lasers to electromagnetic railguns.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023
The ring was an airship landing field.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
During an emergency action plan rehearsal at an Alabama high school, medical providers realized that a foot bridge to the life-flight helicopter’s emergency landing field wasn’t wide enough to support a gurney.
—Julie Washington, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2023
But just as a scene begins to flatten, an aircraft crashes into a tree or flips cleanly onto its back on a landing field, instantly reviving the narrative.
—Andrea Pitzer, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
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“Landing field.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landing%20field. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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