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pilot

[pahy-luht] / ˈpaɪ lət /


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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

York was the subject of the city-wide pilot, which also put on workshops for parents and offered special training for early years staff.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

And it was absolutely impossible for everyone to be a fighter pilot.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

“They spend a lot of time in areas where the helicopter pilots are told not to be,” Cress said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

But a few passengers, crew and off-duty pilots who landed the plane safely overcame their fear and exercised their courage and sense of duty, and helped to make this miracle happen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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

That didn’t happen for a long time—nor did everyone who joined Marina Raskova’s aviators end up flying as combat pilots.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

The 66-year-old Whittingham has never piloted a behemoth like this.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

Archer got its start one year earlier, aiming to bring piloted air taxis to the mass market.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Kush Desai, a White House spokesman, told AFP "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."

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Emma recounted the whole story: how Miss Peregrine was kidnapped by Golan, how she nearly drowned in her cage in the ocean, how we’d rescued her from a submarine piloted by wights.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

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

Loggers running fellers, and captains piloting tender boats.

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

“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

Reggie was piloting his 2007 gold Mazda in the far right lane.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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