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Recent Examples of bush pilot
In fact, the creek's orange color was what led a bush pilot to report the likelihood of valuable minerals there in the 1960s.
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Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
West with the Night by Beryl Markham (1942) Markham, who grew up in the Kenyan Rift Valley hunting with spears and training horses, became one of West Africa's greatest bush pilots.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 26 Aug. 2023
So to be told there were two more hours in a horrifyingly small Cessna and there wouldn’t even be much to see aside from the occasional side-eye at my handsome bush pilot?
—Todd Plummer, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2023
Duke Marolf, a 38-year-old marine welder and bush pilot in Seward, Alaska, also heard the Yeti tales.
—John Clarke, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
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Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
West with the Night by Beryl Markham (1942) Markham, who grew up in the Kenyan Rift Valley hunting with spears and training horses, became one of West Africa's greatest bush pilots.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 26 Aug. 2023
So to be told there were two more hours in a horrifyingly small Cessna and there wouldn’t even be much to see aside from the occasional side-eye at my handsome bush pilot?
—Todd Plummer, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2023
Duke Marolf, a 38-year-old marine welder and bush pilot in Seward, Alaska, also heard the Yeti tales.
—John Clarke, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bush pilot
Noun
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During its first test flight, part of the mounting failed on takeoff and the test pilot safely brought the car/plane back to earth.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 June 2025
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That record was beat just three years later when 90-year-old former Air Force test pilot Ed Dwight flew on a Blue Origin Rocket.—
Brie Stimson,
Fox News,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This is not chatbots and copilots, this is a case of AI agents with yellow hard hats.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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The discussions will be transformed into true thought experiments on future scenarios with board members as strategic copilots.—
Paroon Chadha,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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“Bush pilot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bush%20pilot. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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