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bush flyer

• a pilot who flies commercial aircraft (bush planes) over the trackless wilderness of the northern bush and barrens.

  See also: bush pilot  

  • 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. . . .