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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, 1 Jan. 2024
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, 1 Jan. 2024
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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When the aircraft starts actual flight testing, a test pilot will be on board to oversee the flight and can start and stop the autonomy in real time.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
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Honeywell senior test pilot Capt. Kirk Vining late last month put the alerts — called Surface Alert, or SURF-A — to the test by recreating some of the most serious near disasters at airports in recent aviation history.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That system then employs copilots and agentic AI to handle myriad tasks inside an organization.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
19 Sep. 2025
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With the help of AI copilots and decision-support systems, people with fewer qualifications or experience could take on some of the work currently performed by more skilled and experienced professionals.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Bush pilot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bush%20pilot. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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