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Definition of Landing field
1. Noun. A place where planes take off and land.
Specialized synonyms: Aerodrome, Airdrome, Airport, Drome, Airstrip, Flight Strip, Landing Strip, Strip, Auxiliary Airfield
Terms within: Apron, Runway, Taxi Strip, Taxiway, Flight Line
Generic synonyms: Facility, Installation
Group relationships: Transit, Transportation, Transportation System
Definition of Landing field
1. Noun. (alternative name of airfield) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Landing Field
Literary usage of Landing field
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Aerospace Year Book (1919)
"What is a good landing field? It is, in one sense, any space of smooth ground
... But the landing field which practical aviation will require in the future ..."
2. Aircraft Year Book by Manufacturers Aircraft Association (1919)
"What is a good landing field? It is, in one sense, any space of smooth ground
... But the landing field which practical aviation will require in the future ..."
3. NBS Special Publication (1921)
"By using the radio compass, he can steer toward his landing field, but a need
was felt for a device which would supplement the radio compass by telling the ..."
4. Aviation Medicine in the A. E. F. by William Holland Wilmer (1920)
"The last hundred meters of altitude should be lost in a straight glide. RULES FOR
THE landing field. 1. The flagman at the landing field will use the same ..."
5. War Work of the Bureau of Standards: April 1, 1921 by National Bureau of Standards, United States Bureau of Standards, United States (1921)
"In one, a large coil of wire consisting of one or a very few turns with a length
of about 1000 feet on a side is laid on the landing field. ..."
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