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Airdrome   Listen
noun
airdrome  n.  
1.
An airfield equipped with control tower and hangers as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo.
Synonyms: airport, aerodrome





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"Airdrome" Quotes from Famous Books



... continued the officer, "because an explosion was heard, coming from the south, just a short time ago. Everybody believes it must be the airdrome sheltering the dirigible Britain sent over here for use, and which lies further down the coast. But, much as I hate to say it, I fear something serious has happened to Beverly's hangar; in fact that a bomb has destroyed it, or else some rank Hun treachery ...
— Air Service Boys Over the Atlantic • Charles Amory Beach
... and radio receivers rushed in. The news of the world was theirs once more. And it told of a terrified, waiting world. There would be no temporizing now on the part of the invaders. They had seen the airplanes swarming from the ground—they would know an airdrome next time from the air. Thurston had noted the windows in the great shell, windows of dull-colored glass which would protect the darkness of the interior, essential to life for the horrible occupant, but through which it could see. It could watch ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various
... to show that he can control his machine. From then on it is a question of the polishing of the nice points, making his forced landings perfect, not side-slipping a foot on his vertical banks, and coming out of spin so that he always faces the airdrome—all of which distinguish the good ...
— Opportunities in Aviation • Arthur Sweetser


Words linked to "Airdrome" :   airfield, airport terminal, heliport, airport, airdock, field, control tower, repair shed, Kennedy Interrnational, landing field, Kennedy International Airport


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