box man

noun

noun

Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The pilot flying behind the leader in a box formation.

[…] 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.2010, Tony Doyle, Flying at the Edge:

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