spotter

Example Sentences

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Wearing flight suits and harnesses, spotters occupy front-facing seats in the cramped cabin while the jumpers face each other in two rows lining the body of the plane.

From Seattle Times

“Instead we relied on a spotter plane to find free-swimming sharks and radioed their locations to a research vessel,” the Aleutian Dream.

From Scientific American

From his workplace, Christopher Lowe, a marine biology lecturer at Swansea University, has easy access to the Swansea bay and Gower beaches where hopeful spotters are keen on gathering.

From BBC

Through a painstaking search that included deep dives into websites in which plane spotter hobbyists kept track of aircraft, Ceraudo and Lewin were able to locate the planes.

From Seattle Times

Crews on the ground and in spotter planes are fanning out each day to search for emerging hazards along the river’s edge.

From Los Angeles Times