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On August 19, after climbers and supplies had been organized and a weather window opened up, Alaskan bush pilot Don Sheldon flew the team straight into the Kahiltna Glacier at 9,800 feet to start climbing—nearly three thousand feet above the usual base camp elevation.
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Maya Silver, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2025
It was designed with the help of Alaskan bush pilot Tommy Thompson in 1952.
—Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
In fact, the creek's orange color was what led a bush pilot to report the likelihood of valuable minerals there in the 1960s.
—Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
But never underestimate an Arctic bush pilot.
—Maggie Shipstead, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2019
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Maya Silver, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2025
It was designed with the help of Alaskan bush pilot Tommy Thompson in 1952.
—Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
In fact, the creek's orange color was what led a bush pilot to report the likelihood of valuable minerals there in the 1960s.
—Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
But never underestimate an Arctic bush pilot.
—Maggie Shipstead, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bush pilot
Noun
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On April 10, 2026, UB test pilot Ric Webb took the controls to conduct the flight.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
12 May 2026
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This was a great test pilot mission.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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After achieving 30% adoption for a coding copilot that was rolled out by HubSpot, Lennox and his team shared incident data that showed engineers that the work being done by teams using that tool wasn’t negatively affecting reliability versus those that weren’t.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
13 May 2026
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Sylvia, my copilot, snores softly.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Bush pilot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bush%20pilot. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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