pilot
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Marshall says a traditional pilot season used to have five or six multicam pilots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
SolarEdge expects to have a fully working, proof-of-concept prototype by the end of the year, and to establish pilot programs at data centers by next year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Two weeks ago, the Lebanese army was allowed to deploy to one of the first "pilot zones", after Israeli troops pulled out of the village of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The agreement will "pilot in the US in the coming months with the intention of other markets to follow."
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
“Turn left 15 degrees,” Okimoto instructed the pilot.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Potential tenants LaTerra is targeting include pilots, flight attendants and other people who work at the airport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Hengky said the pilot likely did not expect to be checked in the special customs lane for pilots and crew, "but the monitoring we carry out is the same" for everyone.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Jouppi swore he had no idea; bush pilots do not rummage through their passengers’ bags.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
WSJ gained exclusive access to film pilots and navigators pivoting from attacks on Russian heavy equipment to destroying their drones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Three of the 586th’s fighter pilots, Zoya Pozhidayeva, Anya Demchenko, and Mariya Kuznetsova, became close friends almost immediately, and Zoya and Anya flew together as a pair.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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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
“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
Meanwhile, 13 children were aboard the overcrowded dinghy piloted by Yuk two days earlier - some of whom were not wearing life jackets.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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
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A teenager charged over a small boat Channel crossing was allegedly piloting a "mega dinghy" carrying a record 165 migrants from France to England, the National Crime Agency has said.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
The commission is also piloting an age-verification app intended to verify whether users are over 18 if they want to access restricted online content.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
One post in 2025 showed the two leaders piloting a B-2 bomber together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
The insurer is piloting an AI assistant for customers reporting auto losses, according to an internal State Farm report on takeaways from the Vegas convention reviewed by the Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 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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