piloted
adjective
pi·lot·ed
ˈpī-lə-təd 
: flown or operated by a pilot
piloted flight
a remotely piloted aircraft
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When all was said and done, the first piloted flight was pushed into 2023.
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William Harwood, CBS News, 5 June 2024
While SpaceX has launched 50 astronauts, cosmonauts and civilians into orbit in 13 piloted Crew Dragon flights since May 2020, Boeing has been bedeviled by multiple technical problems that required extensive re-work -- and an additional unpiloted test flight -- to resolve.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 5 May 2024
Hardy later piloted giant B-29 bombers during the Korean War and C-119 gunships in Vietnam.
—Kerry J. Byrne Fox News, Fox News, 3 Feb. 2023
Airstrikes—from piloted aircraft, drones, or robotic and autonomous systems including kamikaze drones and drones carrying explosive charges—are crucial to enabling forces to maneuver on the ground.
—David Kilcullen, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2023
That is because both Ukraine, with Patriot missiles, among other weapons, and Russia with its S-400 air defense systems, have formidable air defenses that have largely deterred each other from launching airstrikes near or behind the front lines with piloted warplanes.
—Lara Jakes, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2023
Thursday's flight was Virgin's seventh piloted sub-orbital mission since an initial test flight on December 13, 2018.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2023
Some have suggested that modern antiaircraft missiles are so lethal to traditional piloted aircraft that these, too, are headed for the ash heap of history.
—Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023
Boeing's first piloted mission is expected later this year.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2021
William Harwood, CBS News, 5 June 2024
While SpaceX has launched 50 astronauts, cosmonauts and civilians into orbit in 13 piloted Crew Dragon flights since May 2020, Boeing has been bedeviled by multiple technical problems that required extensive re-work -- and an additional unpiloted test flight -- to resolve.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 5 May 2024
Hardy later piloted giant B-29 bombers during the Korean War and C-119 gunships in Vietnam.
—Kerry J. Byrne Fox News, Fox News, 3 Feb. 2023
Airstrikes—from piloted aircraft, drones, or robotic and autonomous systems including kamikaze drones and drones carrying explosive charges—are crucial to enabling forces to maneuver on the ground.
—David Kilcullen, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2023
That is because both Ukraine, with Patriot missiles, among other weapons, and Russia with its S-400 air defense systems, have formidable air defenses that have largely deterred each other from launching airstrikes near or behind the front lines with piloted warplanes.
—Lara Jakes, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2023
Thursday's flight was Virgin's seventh piloted sub-orbital mission since an initial test flight on December 13, 2018.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2023
Some have suggested that modern antiaircraft missiles are so lethal to traditional piloted aircraft that these, too, are headed for the ash heap of history.
—Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023
Boeing's first piloted mission is expected later this year.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2021
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“Piloted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piloted. Accessed 13 Jun. 2024.
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