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aircraftsman

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

noun

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


Gender

Is aircraftsman gender-neutral? See -man.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

Etymology

Origin of aircraftsman

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

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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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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