copilot
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copilots
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Last month a small plane crashed into the side of a building in the southeastern city of Belo Horizonte, killing the pilot and copilot.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
Nine days and three minutes later, Dick, along with copilot Jeana Yeager, completed one of the greatest milestones in aviation history: the first round-the-world flight with no stops or refueling.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2024
Autopilot is an evolution of Luminance's copilot tool, which colour-codes clauses for legal professionals as they review a contract in Word.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2023
He served in Afghanistan as an Apache helicopter copilot gunner in 2012-2013.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 9, 2023
Polina Osipenko, who’d flown with Marina earlier that summer, was going to be Valentina’s copilot; Marina would be their navigator.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
“Fictitious friends and mannequin copilots won’t cut it,” said CHP officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
The project will create AI copilots to assist staff at customer companies as they design new products, and organise production and maintenance.
From Reuters ● Oct. 31, 2023
The new assistants - often called "agents" or "copilots" - promise to perform more complex personal and work tasks when commanded to by a human, without needing close supervision.
From Reuters ● Jul. 17, 2023
We're like copilots, there is no captain, and what we're saying, with greater or lesser degrees of urgency is: "Look out! Pull up!"
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2018
He went on: “One thing I personally try to do is, I try to put myself a little down. I say to my copilots, ‘I don’t fly very often.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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