How to Use piloted in a Sentence

piloted

adjective

• Branson’s piloted plane has already flown to space three times.
  — Marcia Dunn, orlandosentinel.com, 9 July 2021
• The Air Force is studying whether to field a fleet of drone wingmen flying alongside piloted fighter aircraft.
  — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2023
• The system will also allow the Air Force to boost the size of its aircraft fleet, as a single uncrewed drone will cost just a fraction of a modern, piloted fighter.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2021
• The proposal involved a large double-decker platform a few feet above the water hanging from a piloted trolley.
  — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2020
• The piloted Shenzhou spacecraft carry astronauts and equipment to the space station.
  — New York Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• In any case the mesh is an effective missile sponge, diverting anti-aircraft fire away from piloted aircraft.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• And the action in Ukraine suggests that even more novel kinds of aerial conflict—including combat drones armed to fight in tandem with piloted aircraft—are coming to the broader world of warfare.
  — Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
• Remote piloted drones such as high-altitude Global Hawks and medium-altitude Reapers also supply data to the 102nd, according to the Guard.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
• Military UAVs still have a poor safety record compared with piloted aircraft, but as trust in them mounts, there's little doubt that their use will expand and spill over into civilian applications.
  — David Schneider, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Jan. 2011
• Boeing is counting on the test flight to finally clear the way for piloted missions that will eventually ferry astronauts to and from the station under a $4.2 billion commercial crew contract with NASA.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2021
• Unlike Branson’s piloted rocket plane, Bezos’ capsule was completely automated and required no official staff on board for the up-and-down flight.
  — Marcia Dunn, Chron, 20 July 2021
• Some have suggested that modern antiaircraft missiles are so lethal to traditional piloted aircraft that these, too, are headed for the ash heap of history.
  — Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023
• Boeing's first piloted mission is expected later this year.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2021
• Airstrikes—from piloted aircraft, drones, or robotic and autonomous systems including kamikaze drones and drones carrying explosive charges—are crucial to enabling forces to maneuver on the ground.
  — David Kilcullen, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2023
• But the agency plans to allow drones, civilian or otherwise, to share airspace with old-fashioned piloted aircraft by 2015—provided the drones incorporate collision-avoidance technology.
  — David H Freedman, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2012
• Drones can get closer to utility lines than piloted helicopters and use autonomous navigation.
  — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 3 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024