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test pilot

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as in bush pilot

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Recent Examples of test pilot Notably, there are several women with military test pilot experience in the agency’s astronaut corps with comparable experience to their male counterparts for a mission like Artemis III. — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 9 June 2026 Before becoming an astronaut, Parmitano was a test pilot for the Italian air force. — Tom Costello, NBC news, 9 June 2026 Mann was part of NASA's 2013 astronaut class and joined the agency with a test pilot and mechanical engineering background. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 8 June 2026 Chandler’s Hal Jordan is a former test pilot nearing retirement from the Green Lantern Corps. — ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026 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

Definition of bush pilot

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Funk trained more than 3,000 pilots and logged more than 30,000 hours of flight time over the course of her life, according to the city.

— Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 July 2026
Funk was one of 13 female pilots who went through the same tests as NASA’s all-male astronaut corps in the early 1960s but never made it into space with that agency.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 July 2026

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Your feed is flooded with AI copilots, recruiters, SDRs, designers, assistants, note takers, browsers and video editors.

— Krish Ramineni, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
The inaugural flight took place from Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport in France, where test pilot Sébastien Dupont de Dinechin and copilot Fabrice Dougnac lifted off aboard the Falcon 10X for a mission lasting approximately two and a half hours.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 21 June 2026

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Baines made his major-league debut April 10, 1980, starting in right field in a 5-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles at Comiskey Park, facing ace Jim Palmer and winding up 0-for-4.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2026
Sánchez is in the running for the NL Cy-Young Award again this season with Jacob Misiorowski, Phillies teammate and fellow ace Zack Wheeler Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani and others.

— Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 12 July 2026

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