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flyboy

noun

Definition of flyboy

as in copilot

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Recent Examples of flyboy For now, the flyboy will be resting in the barracks. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025 The charismatic flyboy of the sequel trilogy is a true rebel, even questioning commands from his boss, and a top-notch choice for attacking an oversized space station. — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024 Starring Jonathan Majors as Jesse Brown, the first Black aviator in Navy history, and Powell as his flyboy friend Tom Hudner, Devotion, based on the bestselling book of the same name, opened with $9 million over the holiday weekend. — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2022 This Korean War flyboy drama was largely passed over at TIFF, but an Audience Award at the Middleburg Film Festival put it back on pundits’ radars. — Vulture, 18 Nov. 2022 See All Example Sentences for flyboy

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Noun

After a passenger grabbed the copilot and pulled him out, and others grappled with the man to subdue him, Schlichter said that one of the traveling pilots practically hurtled the scrum to enter the cockpit and seize the controls.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
After an Omani national copilot — who has since been identified as 29-year-old Hamam al-Hammami — allegedly stabbed FlyDubai flight 1073’s pilot Capt.

— Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of copilot

Noun

In a small pilot study of human-AI relationships in China, for example, people’s attachment towards AI barely matched their attachment towards real people.

— Pascal Vrticka, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2026
The attorney general of the UAE, Hamad Saif Al Shamsi, said the co-pilot on board the flight had attempted to seize control of the plane by attacking his colleague with a crash ax – a piece of equipment required on most aircraft.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of pilot

Noun

Kutryk, who is also launching into space for the first time, is a former military test pilot and fourth-generation Ukrainian Canadian.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2026
Glover was a test pilot in the F/A‐18 Hornet, Super Hornet and EA‐18G Growler and has flown over 45 aircraft, accumulating over 4000 hours in the skies.

— Angelique Jackson, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of test pilot

Noun

In 1941, the aviator Charles Lindbergh may still have been praising Hitler’s air power and railing against undue Jewish influence.

— Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Meanwhile, the fringe fell in line with the top rim of her aviator shades, leaving little space for her forehead to show.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of aviator

Noun

The United States has more than 50,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines stationed throughout Japan, including on several bases in Okinawa, an island chain in the south.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
The airman, who was a legal gun owner, died from his injuries.

— Mark Walker, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026

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