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Recent Examples of bush pilot
It was designed with the help of Alaskan bush pilot Tommy Thompson in 1952.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bush pilot
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Combining views from the cockpit, a mission control area and from chase planes, the video brings views from takeoff, flight and touchdown — and the moment when NASA lead X-59 test pilot Nils Larson emerges from the cockpit to greet well-wishers.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
25 Nov. 2025
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Efforts to address the controller shortage and hire more FAA technicians and test pilots were set back by the shutdown because some people decided to leave the profession and the yearslong training process for these crucial FAA employees was interrupted.—
Josh Funk,
Fortune,
20 Nov. 2025
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The driver, Majid (Ali Mohammad Radmanesh), has romantic feelings for his copilot, Najveh (Zakieh Behbahani), a deaf woman in a relationship with a domestic abuser.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
30 Dec. 2025
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Yidu Tech developed an AI copilot to assist doctors in their medical work.—
Angelica Ang,
Fortune,
21 Nov. 2025
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“Bush pilot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bush%20pilot. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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