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Flight lieutenant (Flt Lt or F/L) is a junior officer rank used by some air forces, with origins from the Royal Air Force. [1] The rank originated in the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) in 1914. It fell into abeyance when the RNAS merged with the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War but was revived in 1919 in the post-war RAF.
Rex Harrison – Actor, reached the rank of Flight Lieutenant; Rollo Hayman – Rhodesian farmer and politician; Godfrey Hounsfield – Nobel laureate and co-inventor of Computed tomography. George Hutchinson – Professional footballer; Peter Imbert – Police Officer, served Royal Air Force Police; T. E. Lawrence – 'Lawrence of Arabia'.
Rank group Student officer Army of the Republic of Vietnam (1955-1963) [1] Army of the Republic of Vietnam (1964-1975) [2] Republic of Vietnam Navy (1955-1963) [1] Republic of Vietnam Navy
In addressing them, they are referred to using the rank displayed - e.g. as Major (Thiếu tá), Lieutenant (Trung úy) etc. They do not hold any command authority over regular officers. Rank insignia used by the specialist officer corps since 2008 have a pink silk line running along the shoulder board (before 2008 it was a V-shaped chevron) to ...
In the 17th century, the term "lieutenant" corresponded to "deputy" (i.e. a person appointed to carry out a task). La Reynie was the deputy for policing duties of the Provost of Paris, the ceremonial representative of the King in Paris. In 1995, the rank of lieutenant was introduced in the National Police as the first rank of the police ...
Flight Lieutenant (aka Flight Captain and He's My Old Man) is a 1942 American drama war film starring Pat O'Brien as Sam Doyle, a disgraced commercial pilot who works to regain the respect of his son against the backdrop of World War II.
The Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF; Không quân nhân dân Việt Nam (KQNDVN)), officially the Air Defence - Air Force Service (ADAF Service; Vietnamese: Quân chủng Phòng không - Không quân (Quân chủng PKKQ)) or the Vietnam Air Force (Không quân Việt Nam (KQVN)), is the aerial and air defence service branch of Vietnam.
Flying officer is immediately senior to pilot officer and immediately below flight lieutenant. It is usually equivalent to the rank of sub-lieutenant in the navy and of the rank of lieutenant in other services. The equivalent rank in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force was "section officer".