pilot
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This year, the discount carrier lowered the flight hours required to apply for a junior, second-officer pilot program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
In court documents, prosecutors said Rush had also lied about his educational and professional background before joining the CIA, including a false claim that he had been a US military pilot.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
NBC4 reporter Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw were killed in the crash along with 29-year-old Edy Gutierrez Mejia, who was on the ground when the chopper went down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Radio transmissions show trouble with communications between the air traffic controller and the pilot, the Boston Globe reported, based on transmissions provided by LiveATC.net.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
“That poor family…Those pilots go up there day after day to fight off the German attacks. Did you hear that the average life expectancy for a Spitfire pilot is just four weeks?”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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It opened a new 38,000- square-foot flight training center in Dubai, signed a deal with Boeing to provide in-house flight training and last year launched a new cadet program to train foreign pilots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The NBC4 helicopter crash has prompted soul-searching in the world of TV news helicopter pilots and focused attention on safety issues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Two pilots and two medical staff, both Canadian, had flown to Bermuda to collect a patient and their relative, Clarence Togeretz, director of flight operations at Latitude, told CBC News.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
There were 382,000 commercial pilots around the world in 2025, according to aviation training technology company CAE.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The rookie navigators might have been lost in the bad weather, or the rookie pilots might have run out of fuel.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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NHS England said that the genomic test, which works by quickly analysing the genetic code of a sample of the tumour, will be piloted in specialist centres around England.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Looking out to 2030, viability "remains extremely limited and mainly only concerns raw materials", Eve Barre, an economist who piloted the Coface study, said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Archer got its start one year earlier, aiming to bring piloted air taxis to the mass market.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
“Marine One flights are piloted by some of the best aviators in the world, and at no point was the President in harm’s way,” said White House spokesman Kush Desai.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
As Max piloted the Vonnegut down to the surface, I prepared for the possibility of combat by charging up my armor and buffing my avatar with several potions and nano packs.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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A man has been jailed for 18 months for piloting a small boat carrying 26 other people, including six children, towards the Kent coast.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Operators once steering 40-ton bulldozers over the tough, trash-filled terrain of the Marana Regional Landfill near Tucson, Ariz., are now remotely piloting a Caterpillar with a joystick hundreds of yards away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
McDonald’s locations piloting a new media network for the restaurant chain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
However, Atak was seen during 90 minutes of aerial footage to be piloting the vessel using its one remaining functioning engine, the court heard.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The Nazis claim that Comrade Hess met with an accident over the North Sea while piloting a fighter plane.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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