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Child flies military aircraft, gaining ground on the slower pilots
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Child flies military aircraft, gaining ground on the slower pilots
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Our definition here is 'Child flies', and our answer will be a word for that.
This clue's fodder is 'military aircraft, gaining ground on the slower'. We'll use these letters (or some of them) to construct our answer, as guided by the clue's indicator(s).
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