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  • 121automatic pilot — UK / US noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms automatic pilot : singular automatic pilot plural automatic pilots a system that controls the direction of a plane, ship, or spacecraft • on automatic pilot …

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  • 122John Grierson (pilot) — John Grierson (2 January 1909 21 May 1977 [Anne Morrow Lindbergh in I Remember Lindbergh ] ) was a UK born pilot, author and aviation administrator.John Grierson started his flying lessons at Brooklands while still a schoolboy, graduated from RAF …

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  • 123automatic pilot — noun count or uncount a system that controls the direction of an airplane, ship, or SPACECRAFT on automatic pilot doing things without thinking about what you are doing, especially because you have done the same thing many times before …

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  • 124bar pilot — noun Etymology: bar (I) : a pilot who navigates a ship from a pilot station over a bar and often into the harbor or to the docks …

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  • 125Lode-ship — n. An old name for a pilot boat. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 126Aircraft Ship Integrated Secure and Traverse — The Aircraft Ship Integrated Secure and Traverse (ASIST) system was developed by Canadian company Indal Technologies. ASIST completed sea trials by July 31 1992 and production units are in operation with the Chilean Navy, Republic of Singapore… …

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  • 127Three Brothers (ship) — The Three Brothers was a small wooden Great Lakes lumber freighter built in 1888 by the Milwaukee Shipyard Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the Chicago based John Spry Lumber Company. Originally she was christened as the May Durr and bearing… …

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  • 128List of ship names of the Royal Navy (O-Q) — This is a list of Royal Navy ship names starting with O, P and QMain A B C D F G H I L M N O Q R T U ZO* O1 * Oak * Oakham Castle * Oakington * Oakley * Oakville * Obdurate * Obedient * Oberon * Obervateur * Observer * Ocean * Oceanway * Ocelot * …

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