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bush flyer
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a pilot who flies commercial aircraft (bush planes) over the trackless wilderness of the northern bush and barrens.
See: bush pilot
Quotations
1957
. . . judges and explorers, bush fliers and river boatmen . . . patronized the Hudson's Hope Hotel.
1962
The bush flyers found gas on the Peace where they had only to push a stick a foot or so down into the sand of the riverbank to get a tiny gas well. . . .