pilot
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A pilot program instituting the delivery changes in 18 regions before the 2024 election ran into problems.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
Only a handful of people in this world look at a 70-pound preteen and think, Here is the future pilot of a 1,000-horsepower beast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
James spends a portion of the pilot episode “on a month-long scholarship at the University of Oslo,” seemingly doing nothing but calling Jeanie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
As an aspiring pilot, he said schools should not just provide work experience opportunities, but additional teaching on other aspects of adult life outside of work.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
That night, in a cottage near the launch pad, a twenty-seven-year-old fighter pilot named Yuri Gagarin lay still in a wooden bunk, pretending to be asleep.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Some pilots were able to fly fast, but others were losing connection even at speeds well below 160 kilometers an hour, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The unit’s commander said he didn’t know what happened to the other drones because the pilots lost contact with them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The Sun leads with a "£20m crash probe" after "two pilots steered away from buildings and ejected before the Hawk T2 nosedived and exploded near RAF Valley, North Wales, last month".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 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
Early on, Tamara transferred eight of the 586th’s finest pilots to other regiments to try to ease the friction.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Equipped with German 5G mobile-phone cards, the drones could be piloted remotely over the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
It says a "heavy" hexacopter, piloted by a remote operator, was able to maintain stability during the "very difficult" operation.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 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
The intention craft was being piloted by Mrs. Coulter.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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Matthew Parris, prosecuting, told the court that the defendant was seen piloting the boat, which was being followed by French authorities.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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
“He was flying to Los Angeles that day, piloting a 767. He called and told me to turn on the TV — ‘You won’t believe what is going on in New York.‘”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Today’s world-model startups want to create a control system that’s as versatile when piloting robots as today’s LLMs are when crafting text, from sonnets to software.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
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