1.   My flight instructor had assigned me to fly to a remote airstrip, complete with one runway and a windsock.

2.   Textron Systems is best known in military circles for making antitank mines and portable microwave beacons that can be used to land large transport planes on remote airstrips.

3.   Four men armed with handguns hijacked a small plane Wednesday, forcing the pilot to fly to a remote airstrip in neighboring Brazil before disappearing into the nearby jungle.

4.   Leftist rebels have released six hostages from a hijacked Avianca airliner that was forced to land by several pistol-waving passengers on a remote northern Colombian airstrip.

5.   Officials believe drug and arms smugglers also use the remote airstrips for shipments.

6.   Reporters from The Associated Press, London-based Reuters and the Gannett newspaper chain accompanied the Marines to a base at a remote airstrip in southern Afghanistan.

7.   Three armed men, believed to be Colombians, hijacked a small private plane from a remote airstrip in northwest Guyana.

8.   The plane had taken off from the remote Chirundu airstrip near a popular wildlife sanctuary along the Zambesi.