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Recent Examples of flyboy
This Korean War flyboy drama was largely passed over at TIFF, but an Audience Award at the Middleburg Film Festival put it back on pundits’ radars.
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Vulture, 18 Nov. 2022
Brawn and brains, flyboy and nerd, working together to take out the baddies.
—Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2010
Starring Jonathan Majors as Jesse Brown, the first Black aviator in Navy history, and Powell as his flyboy friend Tom Hudner, Devotion, based on the bestselling book of the same name, opened with $9 million over the holiday weekend.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2022
So with all that, why the optimism now for Tom Cruise’s flyboy movie?
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
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Vulture, 18 Nov. 2022
Brawn and brains, flyboy and nerd, working together to take out the baddies.
—Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2010
Starring Jonathan Majors as Jesse Brown, the first Black aviator in Navy history, and Powell as his flyboy friend Tom Hudner, Devotion, based on the bestselling book of the same name, opened with $9 million over the holiday weekend.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2022
So with all that, why the optimism now for Tom Cruise’s flyboy movie?
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flyboy
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Picture this: The customer service team uses one copilot to track support tickets and gather customer feedback, the sales team relies on another copilot to forecast revenue and manage leads, and the product team uses yet another copilot to analyze user behavior and prioritize features.—
Abhi Maheshwari,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Autopilot systems, fly-by-wire controls, and synthetic vision, while not the equivalent of an A.I. copilot, are also all heavily computer dependent.—
Daniel Cote,
Robb Report,
16 Feb. 2025
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The National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the crash was due primarily to the pilots’ inappropriate response to stall warnings.—
Ted Reed,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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That might reassure some people impressed by videos of SpaceX’s rockets, but on Tuesday afternoon, Musk, who did qualify for a private pilot certificate in 2002, seemed baffled by some of the basics of air travel.—
Andrew Perez,
Rolling Stone,
26 Feb. 2025
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The first people selected to train for space flight were U.S. Navy test pilots, like Alan Shepard, the first American to go to space (May 5, 1961), and the second person after Yuri Gagarin (April 12, 1961).—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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The test pilots were to originally spend eight days aboard the ISS in June, but this grew to eight months after NASA decided to bring Boeing's faulty Starliner capsule back to Earth without a crew in September.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
19 Dec. 2024
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Axiom Space’s Director of Human Spaceflight and former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is the mission commander with aviator John Shoffner as pilot and two mission specialist seats paid for by the Saudi Space Commission, Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali AlQarni.—
Richard Tribou,
Orlando Sentinel,
21 Feb. 2025
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One pair of aviators is designed with reflective lines on the temples, which takes inspiration from the Canada Goose Expedition parka.—
Layla Ilchi,
WWD,
19 Feb. 2025
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Those included images of the legendary Tuskegee airmen, female Marines and events honoring Asian and Pacific Islander contributions to the military.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is on site in Kentucky, according to Beshear, along with 146 soldiers and airmen from the Kentucky National Guard.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Flyboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flyboy. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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