hangar pilot
hangar pilot noun: someone who discusses or fantasizes about flying airplanes but does little or no actual flying.
Noun
hangar pilot (plural hangar pilots)
- Someone who discusses or fantasizes about flying airplanes but does little or no actual flying.
- His greatest horror would be to become a hangar pilot, who only talks flying, or a pilot with dishpan hands - the little homebody.1945, Fred Hamann, “Diction-Air For Paddlefeets”, in Boeing Magazine, volume 15, number 1, page 13
- -Most pilots who talk this way are sincere, though mistaken. A few, who might be called the Typhoid Marys of this disease, are not much more than hangar pilots.1967, Robert Blodget, “Follow Me Through”, in Flying Magazine, volume 80, number 5, page 88
Forms of hangar pilot
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Questions about hangar pilot
- What does hangar pilot mean?
- Hangar pilot means someone who discusses or fantasizes about flying airplanes but does little or no actual flying.
- What part of speech is hangar pilot?
- Hangar pilot is a noun.
- What is the plural of hangar pilot?
- The plural of hangar pilot is hangar pilots.
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