grass runway

collocation in English

meaningsofgrassandrunway

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grass
noun
uk
/ɡrɑːs/us
/ɡræs/
a low, green plant that grows naturally over a lot of the earth's surface, having groups of very thin leaves that grow close together in ...
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runway
noun[C]
uk
/ˈrʌn.weɪ/us
/ˈrʌn.weɪ/
a long, level piece of ground with a specially prepared smooth, hard surface on which aircraft take off ...
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(Definition ofgrassandrunwayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Doncaster used to have its own light aviation airport with agrassrunwaynot far from the racecourse.
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It started with agrassrunway.
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I also understand that the option of agrassrunwayas part of an aviation heritage centre is among those currently being considered by the council.
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The airfield has a shortgrassrunway, which is used primarily for light aircraft and gliders.
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It sits at altitude of, and has two runways: 18/36, an asphalt runway long, and 08/26, agrassrunwaylong.
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There is also a parallelgrassrunwaymeasuring 700x 80 and paved strip measuring 443x 10.
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The popular runway in the summer time is thegrassrunway01/19.
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It has a singlegrassrunway1,000 metres long and 60 metres wide.
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It has a singlegrassrunwayof 600 m length.
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Agrassrunwaywas constructed which was 600 meters wide and 800 meters long.
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By 1935, thegrassrunwaysurfaces had been replaced by murram.
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Aircraft parked on the dirt and grass tarmac and took off on agrassrunway.
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It also has a parallelgrassrunwayof 900 m by 30 m.
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He also turned the dirt road into agrassrunway.
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The airport lies at 469 ft / 143 m amsl and has a single, unlitgrassrunway(18/36), 770 x 18 m.
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Originally it had a 2,100-foot cinder and shell runway, a 2,500-footgrassrunway, an administration building and a hangar.
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It is used exclusively by ultralight aviation, the shortgrassrunwaynot being able to support heavier aircraft.
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The 18/36grassrunwayhad disappeared under a landfill, while 06/24 had effectively become a taxiway.
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There is agrassrunwayadjacent to runway 29.
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It has one asphalt paved runway designated 18/36 measuring 1139x30 m and a parallelgrassrunwaymeasuring 735x80 m.
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