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flight officer

American  

noun

  1. an officer of the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II, having a rank equivalent to that of a warrant officer junior grade.


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Navy flight officer Paul Lwin founded defense startup HavocAI in Rhode Island in 2024, he has seen Taiwan as an island of opportunity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Evans, a naval flight officer, grew up in Palmdale and attended USC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024

When he was a F-14 Tomcat pilot, he said, the flight officer in the back seat thought he saw a U.F.O.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2023

Song began school as a flight officer in the summer of 2020 and finished that phase last April.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2022

“You’re not my flight officer and you don’t have any gunnery authority.”

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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