Runway
Runway noun - A strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land.
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Strip
Strip noun - A long narrow piece of material.
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At least Once an Episode on Project Runway the models strip down and try on their clothes in front of several people and cameras.
Source: Not Distracted by the Sexy -
The Concorde also had a near flawless safety record, only marred by the Air France Flight 4590 crash, which resulted not from any flaw in the aircraft itself but from the ill-fortune of running over a strip of metal shed onto the runway by an earlier flight.
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The location was chosen due to the lakebed, which made an ideal landing strip when Lockheed Martin needed to relocate its Skunk Works; the base has the longest purpose-built runway in the world, though it appears to have been partially decommissioned following the U-2 spyplane project.
Source: Area 51
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