单词 | air station |
释义 | > as lemmasair station air station n. an airfield operated by a navy or marine corps; (also) a place for the launching and landing of hot-air balloons or airships. ΚΠ 1911 Aeronautics Apr. 13/2 Starting and Landing Stations..A cumbersome expression... ‘Air Stations’ have been suggested as alternatives. 1914 Whitaker's Almanack 774 Fort George (Cromarty Firth).—British Naval Air Station. 1956 T. Williams Let. 7 Sept. in Five O'Clock Angel (1991) 138 The plane trip was seventeen hours and it knocked me out so I could hardly walk from the plane to the air-station. 2003 National Geographic Dec. 31 (caption) Part helicopter, part airplane, the V-22 Osprey flies again at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, where it's being tested after a redesign. < as lemmas |
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