An aviator is a person who flies aircraft for pleasure or as a profession. The word is applied to pilots, but it is also applied more broadly to include people such as navigators, bombardiers, flight engineers, radar operators, and electronic warfare officers. There have been many two-man airplanes where one officer is the pilot, and the other one works as a radar operator, navigator, weapons systems operator, and electronic warfare officer. Many other armed forces have adopted the same concept, with varying names, especially with the adoption of airplanes like the Navy F-4 Phantom II fighter by the U.S. Air Force and many other air forces and navies around the globe.
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