flight lieutenant

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

Example Sentences

During his service to the British Empire, the RAF flight lieutenant flew several missions before being shot down, captured and placed in a prisoner of war camp.

From BBC

In 1972, he found himself back in a prisoner of war camp as the hot-headed Flight Lieutenant Simon Carter in BBC drama Colditz.

From BBC

The other was my great uncle, Flight Lieutenant Herbert Philipson Atkinson, otherwise known as "Phil the Englishman".

From BBC

The first aircraft to fly over Buckingham Palace will be a Juno HT1 helicopter from RAF Shawbury, which will be piloted by Flight Lieutenant Tom Knapp.

From BBC

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