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Chinese ace en · NOUN
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(dated, slang) An inept airplane pilot.
When I reported this to Burwell by telephone, he called me a Chinese ace — in those days Chinese aces were pilots who cracked up their own airplanes […]
1983, John Thorn, David Reuther, The Armchair Aviator, page 101:Flat-spin pilots are stupid or careless flyers, while Huns or Chinese aces are reckless fellows who have crashed […]
1933, Robert Earle Galbraith, These Our Moderns:
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