Sentence examples for ranks of flight from inspiring English sources

Decades ago, hiring policies ensured that the ranks of flight attendants remained young.

Barry shows how "pink-collar" activists among the ranks of flight attendants worked to improve the status of their profession.

While the overall American work force has aged because of demographic shifts, the ranks of flight attendants have aged faster as they have held on to their jobs.

During World War II he served overseas as a navigator in the Royal Australian Air Force, reaching the rank of flight lieutenant.

Lewis, who had the rank of Flight Lieutenant, spent time at Basra air force base from 2003 to 2007.

He left active service in 1948, but remained in the reserves, where he reached the rank of flight lieutenant, until 1951.

After a stint at Wellington College (1936 39), he joined the Royal Air Force (1941 46), attaining the rank of flight lieutenant during his World War II service.

He eventually landed in military counter-intelligence with the rank of flight lieutenant and saw service in the Balkans, Palestine, other parts of the Middle East, Turkey and North Africa.

Between leaving school at the age of 16 and volunteering for the RAF in the second world war, during which he reached the rank of flight lieutenant, he worked for the local council.

Born in Buckhaven, Fife, to William, a colliery blacksmith, and Agnes (nee Thomson), who was from a fishing family, Andrew went to Kirkcaldy high school and then to Edinburgh University, where his studies in history were interrupted by the second world war, during which he was a trainee pilot in the RAF, rising to the rank of flight lieutenant.

Currently holds the rank of flight lieutenant.