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pilot officer
noun
The lowest rank of a commissioned officer in the RAF, equivalent to an Army ensign or coronet
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pilot, officer, and administrator who became the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force.
After he graduated as a pilot officer he was assigned to Bomber Command.
But then he said, 'It's one of ours.' " In September 2003, Mr. Freeborn visited Pilot Officer Hulton-Harrop's grave in a churchyard near the old North Weald airfield.
Pilot Officer Montague Hulton-Harrop, the flier shot down by Mr. Freeborn, became the first British fighter pilot killed in the war.
Their meeting and romance are captured in "Flights of Passage," accurately titled in view of its account of his multiple progress as a pilot, officer and husband.
The second world war interrupted Farrell's studies and in 1940 he enlisted in the RAF, spending the next five years as a pilot officer with Bomber Command.
The squadron leader and the pilot officer tried to persuade me to use the bayonet as it was only a pretence.
Prior to starting his media planning career at Carat UK in 1988, Store trained as a Pilot Officer with the British Royal Navy.
Abbott stopped at the graves of Flight Sergeant Malcolm Robert Burgess and Pilot Officer Roland Gilbert Ward, two of the 14 Australians killed in battle on D-day.
In the middle of the attack, Pilot Officer Billy Fiske crash-landed his damaged Hurricane on the bomb-cratered runway.
US Air Force drones are flown remotely from US bases by a pilot officer in a flight suit, with a joystick, sitting in a mock cockpit.
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