aircraftsman

American  

[air-krafts-muhn, -krahfts-] / ˈɛərˌkræfts mən, -ˌkrɑfts- /

Or aircraftman

noun

British.

plural

aircraftsmen

1. a person holding the rank of noncommissioned officer in the RAF.

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Gender

Is aircraftsman gender-neutral? See -man.

Etymology

Origin of aircraftsman

First recorded in 1915–20; aircraft + s ¹ ( def. ) + -man

Example Sentences

At RAF Wattisham, Peter Nash was a senior aircraftsman with 29 Squadron and he distinctly remembers preparing three Lightning fighter aircraft to scramble.

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2018

In an effort to escape the fame or, as he sometimes saw it, his notoriety he enlisted in the RAF as aircraftsman John Hume Ross.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2013

England a hitchhiking aircraftsman thumbed a car in the country, got a 20-mile ride with grandmotherly Queen Mary, the beauteous Duchess of Kent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Skeptical Canadian authorities had checked up on Buckley's record, found that he was a plain aircraftsman who had been washed out of a pilot-training course in England, then deserted.

From Time Magazine Archive

There Colonel Vincent went into a huddle with a California aircraftsman named Colonel E. J. Hall.

From Time Magazine Archive