flat-hatting

flat-hat

To fly an airplane dangerously close to the ground. Would you please stop flat-hatting? We're going to crash! Do not get into a plane with that guy—he's a daredevil who's apt to flat-hat and almost crash the whole thing. I'm pretty sure the pilot flat-hatted shortly before the crash.

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flat-hatting

n. flying an airplane low and recklessly. (As if flying low enough that only people wearing flat hats could escape being struck.) Some of the air force pilots were flat-hatting over the desert when one of them crashed.

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