They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.

Whidbey Air Park is located southwest of Langley with a long runway.

Wes Lupien Airport is located southwest of Oak Harbor with a long runway.

These surfaces are useful when the runway is located next to a body of water or other hazard, and prevent the planes from overrunning the end of the field.

The single runway at Paro Airport is located in a steep-sided valley with restricted VFR approaches.

The Wakulla County Airport ( 2J0 ), located south of Panacea, is a small public-use airport with a single, north-south turf runway.

Houston County Airport, located 3 miles east of Crockett on SH 7, features a 4, 000-foot runway.

The Jennings Airport, with a runway length of, is capable of landing a small jet and is conveniently located next to Interstate 10.

The terminal is located on the west side of runway 06.

The terminal is located on the north side, just in front of the threshold of runway 24.

There are two additional airstrips, the public Tripod Airport, a 1, 250 ' turf-gravel airstrip located southeast of Aleknagik, and the Adventist Mission School Airport, a 1, 200 ' gravel / dirt airstrip with a crosswind runway.

* Nome City Field-a public-use airport located one nautical mile ( 1. 85 km ) north of the central business district of Nome, it has one runway designated 3 / 21 with a gravel surface measuring 1, 950.

There is a public Anvik Airport ( ANV ) with a 2, 960-foot ( 902 m ) gravel runway located one mile ( 1. 6 km ) southeast of downtown Anvik.

Rosamond Skypark Airport, Federal Aviation Administration identifier L00 ( with two zeroes ), is located at and features a paved runway.

From the over-sized runway and the massive hangar located at Air Force Plant 42 Site 9, NASA conducts worldwide environmental research with its ER-1 ( a U-2 variant ) and cutting edge deep space imaging with the 747-based SOFIA infrared telescope.

The tip of the north runway of Beverly Municipal Airport lies just within town ; the nearest national and international air service is located at Boston's Logan International Airport.

A primary rail customer in Chesterfield is a RockTenn ( formerly Smurfit Stone ) corrugated packaging plant which is located on a spur track that extends from the main track northward along the east end of the runway of the Spirit of St. Louis Airport.

Michael Airfield, a single runway general aviation airport, is located within Cicero.

The Seneca Army Airfield, located along NY-96A, provided a long runway for transport aircraft.

Paulding Airport, located 2 miles northeast of town, has one grass runway, 3056 x 80 ft

It has an airfield with a 840 m ( 2757 ft ) asphalt runway, located about a kilometer west of the town center, its identifier is " O47 ".

Gillespie County Airport ( FAA locator T82 ) is located on State Highway 16 South, about from downtown Fredericksburg, and features a long runway and a hotel and diner.

It has a 5, 000-foot ( 1, 524 m ) runway and a parallel taxiway located a stone's throw from the inlet that gives Grays Harbor its name.

The airport is located west of the southern area and has one runway 4, 400 ' x 100 '.

The final part of the ILS package is a series of " marker beacons ", very low-powered signals that are sent directly upwards from antennas located along the approach to the runway.

Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth of the magnetic azimuth of the runway's heading: a runway numbered 09 points east ( 90 °), runway 18 is south ( 180 °), runway 27 points west ( 270 °) and runway 36 points to the north ( 360 ° rather than 0 °).

Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth of the magnetic azimuth of the runway's heading: a runway numbered 09 points east ( 90 °), runway 18 is south ( 180 °), runway 27 points west ( 270 °) and runway 36 points to the north ( 360 ° rather than 0 °).

If the wind exceeds 90 degrees it is common practice to takeoff and land from the opposite side of the runway, it has a heading of 360 in the above mentioned example.

After reaching orbit, HOTOL was intended to re-enter the atmosphere and glide down to land on a conventional runway ( approx 1, 500 metres minimum ).

The main asphalt runway ( 16L-34R ) is 2, 125 metres ( 6, 972 feet ) in length, and the parallel taxiway was built to runway specification ( 16R-34L ).

The airport has a single asphalt-concrete runway that is 3070 metres long and 45 metres wide ( large enough to handle wide-bodied aircraft such as the Boeing 747 ), five taxiways and fourteen terminal gates.

According to Erik Sakkov, board member of Tallinn Airport, the future plans include expanding the runway by 600 – 700 metres to serve regular long-haul flights, also building of a brand-new taxiway, new storage facilities, a new point-to-point terminal and expansion of the existing passenger terminal, so it can serve arriving and departing passengers on two different levels.

The runway was extended to 1200 metres and completed on 2 March 1987.

* On October 27, 2011, at around 4: 15pm, a Northern Thunderbird Air Beechcraft King Air 100 attempted to land on the south runway but missed by about 900 metres, hitting a lamppost and car, then crashing on nearby Russ Baker Way and Gilbert Road at the west end of Dinsmore Bridge.

It is owned by the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust and is spread over of land, housing a runway that is 2, 230 metres long.

At 4900 metres, runway 17 / 35 is one of the longest runways in the world.

In 1950 the main runway was extended to 2475 metres.

In 1964 planning began for the construction of a new terminal, with capacity for 1. 4 million passengers, and in 1969 the main runway was lengthened to 3000 metres.

The airport has multiple touchdown areas, a paved runway ( 14 / 32 of 1, 730 metres ( 5, 676 ft )), a grass runway ( 32L / 12R of 650 metres ( 2, 133 ft )), a heli-square, and a glider area.

* A specially modified McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle sets eight time to climb records, including one of 3 minutes 27 seconds from standstill on the runway to a height of 30, 000 metres ( 98, 425 feet ).

* 1962 The main runway was extended to 2, 442 metres providing for commercial jet operations.

* 1972 The north-west runway was completely resealed, repainted and extended to 1, 741 metres.

* 1984 Main runway extended by 845 metres to 3, 287 metres.

The airport will build a third runway located 400 metres east of the existing east runway.