flying light
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In 2021, he obtained a license for flying light “sport” aircraft that can carry up to two people, before getting a private pilot license in 2024, the post said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
To research 1966's "Flying Finish," Mary learned how to fly planes, eventually starting her own air taxi business and writing a guide to flying light aircraft under her own name.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2022
Ron Pintier was flying light and low above the northern wilds of the Democratic Republic of Congo when he saw a dark shape racing between two patches of tropical forest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like the barnstormers of the 1920s, their pilots have been flying light single-engined planes, edging them over the Hump by instinct and seat-of-the-pants navigation.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next morning when day broke she was within three miles of one of the new fast vessels, which had come out on her trial trip, flying light, alas!
From Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha by Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden
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