pilot

An airline pilot had some special passengers aboard her plane when she flew her daughter, classmates and teachers to Iceland for a school trip.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The study, published in JAMA, provided the first statistical evidence about the pilot program.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

The model at Oschin is a hydrogen demonstrator aircraft, and can seat one pilot along with four passengers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

NHS Western Isles is one of six health boards taking part in pilot programmes to improve access to weight loss medication.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Khrushchev, as always, had a story at the ready, telling the crowd that Eisenhower and his U-2 pilot reminded him of a trespassing cat.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

According to freedom of information requests sent by BBC Scotland News, NHS Western Isles has 340 patients on medication for weight loss - the highest number of any board involved in the pilots.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

ServiceNow shared that the company’s investments in cybersecurity are paying off as customers move from AI pilots to scaled production, resulting in an uptick in deal volume.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Drone pilots were still having to fly at less than 160 kilometers an hour, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Men at the pool presented themselves to AFP as pilots or trainers, in some cases former special forces personnel.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Before every takeoff, pilots did two hours of “pre-breathing”—breathing in pure oxygen to eliminate nitrogen from the blood.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Not especially keen swimmers, they used their mousing skills to secure passage on world-traveling ships piloted by merchants and explorers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Alongside its longstanding classroom-in-residence program, in which fourth- through sixth-grade classes spend a week at the museum, the Hammer piloted its classroom partnership program under Ryan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

DELHI—As an aviator, Smit Machchhar had piloted through an in-flight birth, turbulent monsoon skies and a high-wire landing in Greece that stretched his skills to the limit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

A teenager who piloted a dinghy carrying a then-record 165 migrants across the English Channel to the UK has pleaded guilty to endangering others during a sea crossing.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

He drove a sports car and piloted his own plane, which he once famously flew so low over the house of the school’s president that the machine’s wheels made a racket rolling over the roof.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

The government said it was investing nearly £100m to improve national resilience capabilities, which includes piloting specially trained firefighting teams.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 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

Loggers running fellers, and captains piloting tender boats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

"It's likely that future X-planes will be uncrewed," says Coen, before adding the vital caveats "unless the technology we're researching relates to piloting or if crewing it is more cost-effective".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

I look over at the cockpit, grateful there are chairs for me and Javier, so I don’t have to stand while piloting the five of us to the surface.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera