flight lieutenant

British  

noun

1. 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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flight lieutenant

The court heard Mr Woods was a flight lieutenant and squadron leader during a 14-year RAF career and went on to work for BAE Systems as an instructor pilot.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2025

Thirteen days before he was born, his father, Reginald, a Royal Air Force flight lieutenant, died when his plane was shot down on a bombing mission over Greece.

From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2022

Weeks earlier, his father, a Royal Air Force flight lieutenant, was lost on a World War II mission over the Aegean.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

By the time Rawlings had been promoted to flight lieutenant in 1978, he had become politically active.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2020

On the 5th of August 1914 Mr. F. K. McClean, by whose help the first naval air pilots had been trained, joined the Royal Naval Air Service as a flight lieutenant.

From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir