but the airfield, on which the aircraft is completely dependent, is doomed by the missile.

But remember this -- it isn't the aircraft which is vulnerable to nuclear rockets, it is the airfield.

Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large military airfield.

UK production is now concentrated at Gaydon on the former RAF V-bomber airfield.

One of these is centered on the northwest point of the atoll, another is found near the Point Marianne Cemetery on the southeast end of the airfield.

When a fighter is launched it is almost immediately followed by the VC10 as changeable weather conditions might make diversion to another airfield necessary.

Leeward Point of the Naval Station is the site of the active airfield.

Leeward Point Field is the active military airfield, with the ICAO code MUGM and IATA code NBW.

McCalla Field is now listed as a closed airfield.

Camp Justice is now located on the grounds of the former airfield.

Shek Kong Airfield, located near Yuen Long, is a military airfield for the People's Liberation Army, which is of limited operating capabilities due to surrounding terrains.

The only aircraft operating on the airfield are PLA's Z-9 helicopters, which is the license-built version of the Eurocopter Dauphin.

A small airfield is also nearby.

Niue International Airport in the west, south of Alofi, is the only airfield.

There is a small airfield located in Domagnano right next to the border ; there is also an international heliport located in Borgo Maggiore.

There is also a small airfield name Camdem Airfield in Couva, which is mainly used for cropdusting planes.

As of 2008, a small sport airfield exists in Toruń ; however, a modernization of the airport is seriously considered with a number of investors interested in it.

Air safety is an important concern in the operation of an airport, and almost every airfield includes equipment and procedures for handling emergency situations.

There is no run-off space beyond the runway thresholds, and the airfield is surrounded by residential areas.

The Ammunition dump was located on the northeast side of the airfield, outside of the perimeter track surrounded by large dirt mounds and concrete storage pens.

The Ammunition dump was located on the east side of the airfield, outside of the perimeter track surrounded by large dirt mounds and concrete storage pens.

The Ammunition dump was located on the northwest side of the airfield, outside of the perimeter track surrounded by large dirt mounds and concrete storage pens.

Anticipating delivery of medicines and yeast by plane, Granite City citizens formed an airfield committee and with the aid of quarrymen and the 172nd Infantry, Vermont National Guard, laid out runways on Wilson flat, high on Millstone Hill.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

The final cavalry charge by British Empire forces occurred on 21 March 1942 when a 60 strong patrol of the Burma Frontier Force encountered Japanese infantry near Toungoo airfield in central Burma.

It was used by several American fighter and transport units until late November when the airfield was closed.

* Circuit ( airfield ), also called the pattern, a standard path followed by aircraft when taking off or landing

The terms of the base rights granted for Bermuda also included that the airfield constructed by the US would be used jointly with the Royal Air Force ( RAF ).

The plan was to provoke a German reaction by laying mines in Norwegian waters, and once Germany showed signs of taking action UK troops would occupy Narvik, Trondheim and Bergen and launch a raid on Stavanger to destroy Sola airfield.

After a brief period of training, an initial attempt at attacking a German airfield by parachute landing in support of Operation Crusader was disastrous.

First experiments were held in 1937 on an Heinkel He 111, piloted by test-pilot Erich Warsitz at Neuhardenberg, a large field about 70 kilometres east of Berlin, listed as a reserve airfield in the event of war.

This was one of the few occasions where an airfield captured by paratroops has been recaptured.

The airfield at Lunga Point on Guadalcanal under construction by Japanese and conscripted Korean laborers in July 1942.

The next day, again against little resistance, the Marines advanced all the way to the Lunga River and secured the airfield by 16: 00 on August 8.

The Japanese naval construction units and combat troops, under the command of Captain Kanae Monzen, panicked by the warship bombardment and aerial bombing, had abandoned the airfield area and fled about west to the Matanikau River and Point Cruz area, leaving behind food, supplies, intact construction equipment and vehicles, and 13 dead.

His fourth design, the C. 4, made the first documented flight of an autogyro on 17 January 1923, piloted by Alejandro Gomez Spencer at Cuatro Vientos airfield in Madrid, Spain ( 9 January according to Cierva ).

Samara is known for the production of aerospace launch vehicles, satellites and various space services, engines and cables, aircraft and rolled aluminum, block-module power stations ; refining, chemical and cryogenic products ; gas-pumping units ; bearings of different sizes, drilling bits ; automated electrical equipment ; airfield equipment ; truck-mounted cranes ; construction materials ; chocolates made by the Russia Chocolate Factory ; Rodnik vodka ; Vektor vodka ; Zhiguli beer ; food processing and light industrial products.

A local anecdote says that it was knocked off by a low flying aircraft from a nearby airfield in the Second World War.

" Static air-and spacecraft displays on the Academy grounds include an F-4, F-15, F-16 and F-105 on the Terrazzo ; a B-52 by the North Gate ; a T-38 and A-10 at the airfield ; an F-100 by the preparatory school ; a SV-5J lifting body next to the aeronautics laboratory ; and a Minuteman III missile in front of the Fieldhouse.

Calais is served by an airport and an airfield.

Taking off from an airfield in the Kola Peninsula, the release plane was accompanied by a Tu-16 observer plane that took air samples and filmed the test.

Kalkara are launched from the airfield and later recovered by parachute into the water and thence by boats maintained at HMAS Creswell, after target-towing exercises off the coast with ships or aircraft.