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frontseater

noun

Etymology

From front seat + -er.

Definitions

  1. Someone who occupies a seat near the front of something.

  2. In a plane with two cockpits

    In a plane with two cockpits: the pilot controlling the aircraft (even though both seats are equally to the front).

    • You undoubtedly know that each F-4 Phantom jet carried two pilots in separate, tandem cockpits. Major Dennis Harper was the frontseater and was the AC or Aircraft Commander. Jim was the backseater or the GIB.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA