aviator

1. Someone who operates an aircraft (synset 109845606)
   is a type of: skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker - a worker who has acquired special skills
   subtypes:

   • airwoman, aviatress, aviatrix - a woman aviator
   • airplane pilot, pilot - someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
   specific instances:

   • bennett, floyd bennett - United States aviator who (with Richard E. Byrd) piloted the first flight over the North Pole (1890-1928)
   • bleriot, louis bleriot - French aviator who in 1909 made the first flight across the English Channel (1872-1936)
   • cochran, jacqueline cochran - United States aviator who held several speed records and headed the women's Air Force pilots in World War II (1910-1980)
   • doolittle, james harold doolittle, jimmy doolittle - United States Air Force officer who electrified the world in 1942 by leading a squadron of 16 bombers on a daylight raid over Tokyo (1896-1993)
   • amelia earhart, earhart - first woman aviator to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic (1928); while attempting to fly around the world she disappeared over the Pacific (1898-1937)
   • howard hughes, howard robard hughes, hughes - United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)
   • charles a. lindbergh, charles augustus lindbergh, charles lindbergh, lindbergh, lucky lindy - United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974)
   • billy mitchell, mitchell, william mitchell - United States aviator and general who was an early advocate of military air power (1879-1936)
   • post, wiley post - United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935)
   same as: aeronaut, airman, flier, flyer

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