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Definition of Combat pilot

1. Noun. Airplane pilot who fights in an action between two military forces.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Combat Pilot

Literary usage of Combat pilot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Aviation Medicine in the A. E. F. by William Holland Wilmer (1920)
"Great stress has been laid upon the economic value of the training, judgment, and experience of the combat pilot. Another consideration is that the number ..."

2. Marines & Helicopters, 1962-1973 by William R. Fails (1995)
"Equally important, all the training is aimed at producing a competent pilot, and not necessarily a competent combat pilot. There is quite a difference ..."

3. Green Light!: Men of the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron Tell Their Story by Martin Wolfe (1989)
"(Ellery Bennett, pilot) It was his demanding military assignment, therefore, as well as the World War II public image of a combat pilot, that required troop ..."

4. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"Acrobatic flying, which we sometimes think of as stunt flying, is absolutely essential for a military pilot. For the combat pilot it is life-saving. ..."

5. An Explorer in the Air Service by Hiram Bingham (1920)
"The good combat pilot must be able to fly in any direction and in any attitude with supreme confidence in his machine and in his ability to put it in any ..."

6. High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall (1918)
"I will not give an account of the trials by means of which one's ability as a combat pilot is most severely tested. This belongs among the pages ..."

7. Eagles of the RAF: The World War II Eagle Squadrons by Philip D. Caine (1994)
"If any combat pilot, when he gets into action and sees the flak coming around him and the enemy aircraft flinging around, says he is not at least concerned, ..."

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