box man

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Noun[edit]

box man (plural box men)

  1. (aviation) The pilot flying behind the leader in a box formation.
    • 2010, Tony Doyle, Flying at the Edge:
      […] there have been an uncomfortably large number of incidents where a leader has flown his whole team into the ground. […] It had happened in the Luftwaffe with an F104 team, and many years later I saw it happen to the box man in the French Fouga Magister team at the Paris Air Show.
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