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The base would be coupled with Berbera International Airport, which at 2.6 miles has one of the longest landing strips in Africa.—Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025 Ken said that when the plane finally stopped on that tiny landing strip, its nose was 2 feet from the water.—Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025 Photos posted to the department's Facebook page show the small aircraft sitting among the trees alongside the landing strip.—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2025 Just after the war, as part of Operation Nanook, the Americans expanded the existing installation with a gravel landing strip as part of an upgrade to a new and larger weather station.—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for landing strip
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