He says currently the only landing pad they have is on the U.N. base, and it's already overly congested.

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The Kulluk is a blue and white circular rig with a helicopter landing pad and a tower in the middle.

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It would also provide accommodation for its clinical team which is currently working out of temporary buildings at its current landing pad at the airport.

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She flew down the runway and glided over the bar for the world mark, a big weight lifted off of her as she fell back into the landing pad.

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Armadillo came close to winning the X Prize Foundation's Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge last year by flying an alcohol-fueled rocket 150 feet in the air to a landing pad 300 feet away.

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As much as 150, 000 gallons of ultra-low sulfur diesel and about 12, 000 gallons of other petroleum products are on board the Kulluk, a double-hulled steel vessel with a helicopter landing pad and tower in the middle designed for drilling in Arctic waters.

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But I see where we stand as more of a launch pad than landing dock.

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The station is equipped with landing strips built on sea ice and shelf ice, as well as a helicopter pad.

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