A little over a year later it became necessary to widen the taxi strip to the hangars as a safety measure in handling large planes.
There was a light mist and the blue lights along the taxi strips blurred into a dull glow before disappearing completely.
The plane "tarmacked" - stood idling on the taxi strip - for three hours.
Puddles were forming in the low spots of the taxi strip.
The driver swung onto the narrow service road that ran parallel with the east-west taxi strip on the southern border of the airport.
There were no taxi strips, but the designers left room for them.
In return, he was given use in perpetuity of the airstrip and a taxi strip between the airfield and his property.
Much farther away, a line of Tarom airline jets sat along a weed-infested taxi strip.
He put the car into gear and started east along the taxi strip.
They lowered to the far end of the runway, turned, and came back on the taxi strip.