Thesaurus results for TEST PILOT

test pilot

noun

as in bush pilot

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Recent Examples of test pilot Meir and Fedyaev have each logged a long-duration stay aboard the station while Hathaway, a former F/A-18E carrier pilot, and Adenot, a French air force helicopter test pilot, are making their first space flight. —

William Harwood, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026 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 Washington — The pilots in a deadly business jet crash in Michigan were performing a test flight themselves, following repairs, instead of waiting for a test pilot, when the aircraft plunged into woods near Lansing, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report Thursday. —

Pete Muntean, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for test pilot

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With the incessant storms that year, bush pilots said red lights would be easier to see than the current blue ones.

— Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
Inspired by post-war bush pilots in Northern Canada, this bomber jacket nods to the durability, warmth, and flexibility those pilots relied on to work the runways in freezing weather.

— Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2025