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A noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force
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aircraftman
Word definitions for aircraftman in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A member of the lowest rank in the Royal Air Force or the air forces of various other Commonwealth countries.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
aircraftman \aircraftman\, aircraftsman \aircraftsman\n. 1. 1 a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Aircraftman ( AC ) or aircraftwoman ( ACW ) is the lowest rank in the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the air forces of several other Commonwealth countries. Aircraftman ranks below leading aircraftman and has a NATO rank code of OR-1. It is now a training ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force [syn: aircraftsman ]
Usage examples of aircraftman.
He half led, half carried her there, where an aircraftman was just heaving the second last parachute and container through the doorway.
Inside the bomber Aircraftman Grigson, halfway through his cigarette, knew immediately what had happened.
After an unsuccessful year at the University of Toronto, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force but was never promoted beyond Leading Aircraftman, the equivalent of an army lance-corporal, spending most of his time as an editorial assistant on Wings Abroad, a propaganda weekly.
Their sons, Bobby and Edward, were twenty four and nineteen respectively, Bobby an artillery officer, Edward an aircraftman in the RAF.
The young aircraftman opened his arms to her, and people smiled as he embraced her and kissed her.
Gentile boy friend, Aircraftman Edward Somers, whose parents were old and close friends of Rachel herself.
In there, Leading-Aircraftman Knox and Aircraftman Botterill, their headsets over their ears, sat huddled over the receiver, waiting for any instructions that might advance the search.
To Flight Sergeant Slingsby, who could still remember the days before Hubert Scott-Paine and Aircraftman Shaw, once Lawrence of Arabia, had produced the first R A F.
Not caring to dwell on such things, David tapped the aircraftman on the shoulder.
Behind Torrance-Smythe two young aircraftmen stood ready to slide packaged equipment and parachutes along the wire and heave them out as swiftly as possible after the last man had jumped.
Marshall returned the salute and rode on to the mess past laughing groups of aircraftmen and WAAFs.
He passed a couple of aircraftmen fishing where Gunnar had been on the previous day, and went on towards a pool at the next weir.