flight lieutenant


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flight lieutenant

n
(Military) an officer holding a commissioned rank senior to a flying officer and junior to a squadron leader in the RAF and certain other air forces
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DISCLOSURE: From left, Flight Lieutenant Hywel Poole, Flight Lieutenant Adam Sanders and Squadron Leader Sam Bailey died in the crash, but an FAI has not been held
He was released from the RAF in 1946 as a flight lieutenant and eventually retired to village life just outside Cambridge.
five A pilot final Maurice Flight Lieutenant 56 Squadron Mounsdon, William Flight Lieutenant Clark, 219 Squadron Terence Flying Officer John 85 Squadron the Hemingway, Leader John Hart, Squadron 602 Squadron Paul Wing Commander Caswell Farnes, 501 Squadron
The Flight Lieutenant's mother has been crying profusely ever since she heard the news of her son's demise.
After performing an eight-minute long breathtaking stunt yesterday, his first in Bahrain, Flight Lieutenant Peterson said the moments were the most memorable of his flying assignment this year.
"During an engagement with the enemy near Southampton on 16th August 1940, Flight Lieutenant Nicolson's aircraft was hit by four cannon shells, two of which wounded him whilst another set fire to the gravity tank.
Flight Lieutenant Peter Jack Phillips and Flying Officer Anthony Trevor Carter died when their Gnat aircraft nosedived.
Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham, was an experienced flyer and Iraq war veteran, but was fatally injured after being ejected from his Hawk T1 aircraft while on the ground at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire.
In 1946, an RAF investigation team exhumed the two bodies taken away by the Germans and identified them as Australian trainee pilot Flight Lieutenant John Colclough Barlow, 35, and Rear Gunner Sergeant Ronald James Paul, 20.
The repatriation at RAF Brize Norton of Flight Lieutenant Geraint Roberts, below left.
Flight Lieutenant Scott, from London, was 32, and Flight Lieutenant Roberts, from North Wales, was 44.