Definition of bush pilot
: a pilot who flies a small plane into remote areas
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Recent Examples on the Web The author evokes her childhood in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya and her exploits as a bush pilot.
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National Geographic, "THE BEST OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX," 15 May 2020 Suddenly, his pain vanishes, and Compie, a bush pilot, arrives to rescue him.
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Christof Koch, Scientific American, "What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about the Brain," 19 May 2020 In August, bush pilot Kirk Johnson flies Acacia and me over McNeil Falls in a single-engine aircraft.
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Acacia Johnson, National Geographic, "Alaska is the best place to see wild bears. A new mine could change that.," 14 Jan. 2020 The bathtubs were destined for a new lodge under construction in Kotzebue for bush pilot Sam Shafsky, who also flew for Alaska Airlines.
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David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, "The 1946 sourdough bathtub controversy and changing times in Alaska," 24 Feb. 2020 And in Alaska, a bush pilot hops in his seaplane to hunt down samples of the colossus, known to some as an enormous 4,000-pound floating head.
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Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, "How a bizarre, monster fish hoodwinked researchers and reeled in a wave of citizen scientists," 22 Feb. 2020 In the past few years the town of Pedro Bay, which would have to consent to such a corridor, has decisively turned against the project, says Jerry Jacques, a bear-viewing company owner and bush pilot who was based in the town for many years.
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Acacia Johnson, National Geographic, "The risky plan to haul minerals from a mine in the Alaska wilderness," 14 Jan. 2020 Molly Mabray is a resourceful 10-year-old who lives in the fictional Alaska village of Qyah with her mom, a bush pilot, and her dad, a wilderness guide.
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Los Angeles Times, "How ‘Molly of Denali’ helps Native American children feel seen," 14 Oct. 2019 Its five private acres used to house just one small mountain shack used by famous Alaskan bush pilot Don Sheldon, who pioneered the technique of glacier landings on Denali back in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Ashley Mateo, Town & Country, "Explore the Last Frontier of Luxury Travel In the U.S.: Alaska," 23 Aug. 2019
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